Artist Profile

                        My artist profile is on Pablo Picasso, who was born on October 25, 1881 and died on April 18, 1973.  Picasso's hometown was Malaga Spain, and his parents where Don Jose Ruiz and Maria Picasso Lopez.  Ironically Picasso's dad was a painter and helped him perfect his craft at an early age.  Picasso had two sisters and a wife, one of the sisters however died at the age of seven.  Picasso lived through almost every significant war of the 20th century and did not fight in any  of them.  While becoming famous he struggled for money and a friend committed suicide.  Once he got famous however he founded and co-founded some major art movements, including cubism, constructed sculpture, and collage.  He worked in Paint, sculpture, and ceramics, and his famous works includes The Weeping Women, Guevnica, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.  The two pieces I liked where The Old Guitar, which is an all blue painting of an old man playing the guitar, and the Violon, which is an abstract painting of a violin.