Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso or simply Pablo Ruiz Picasso
Life years: 25 October 1881 — 8 April 1973
Country: Spain, France
Genres: Tried himself in all directions but mainly worked in the portrait genre
Most famous work: Guernica (1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), Girl on the Ball (1905, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow), A Dream
(1932, private collection), Weeping Woman (1937, Tate Britain, London)
Styles: cubism, surrealism, expressionism, post-impressionism
Facts: Came up with cubism. A coral fish is named after him — the Picasso triggerfish. Once he made a bull’s head out of a bicycle saddle and a handlebar.
How to recognize his work: It’s hard to not immediately recognize the paintings of the cubism period. They always have weird shapes, they are hypertrophied and often depict mixed-up details. They also boast the simultaneous use of multiple angles, and there is no portrait likeness when depicting people. But Picasso was in constant search of styles and genres. It is almost impossible to see a distant perspective in his few landscapes. In his work, you won’t find an attempt to embellish the model in portraits, even realistic ones. The paintings of the “blue” period are painted in cold blue tones, while the work of the “pink” period is full of warm shades — oranges, pink, etc.

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