Pablo Picasso (25. 10. 1881 - 8. 4. 1973) - Spanish painter and sculptor, one of the founders of Cubism. Author of hundreds of exceptional works, including the famous painting Guernica.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in the Spanish port city of Malaga, the family soon moved to La Coruna. His father, a painter and art teacher, he could not miss his son's extraordinary talent and taught him the basic techniques of drawing and painting. Already at the age of fourteen he enrolled in a course for advanced art in Barcelona. There, after a short study stay in Madrid, he returned and began his involvement into the social and political life. As a person rather leftist orientation appealed to him by the rebellious artists and intellectuals, among whom he soon won the respect. In 1901 he co-founded the magazine Arte Joven.

And I often traveled to the "Mecca" of European art of Paris, where he later moved permanently.

Picasso's entire adult life are intertwined women who inspire kept and which are often changed his mistresses. His first wife has become a ballerina Olga Chochlov�, relationship temperamentally very different people, however, was complicated. The marriage was marked by quarrels, separation, and a myriad of Picasso's affairs with other women. I finished infamous affair with Francoise Gilot, a painter with whom he had two children. Only in 1961, Picasso married his second wife Jacqueline Roque s, s which lasted until his death in 1973.

Picasso's work from the early Parisian period is characterized by melancholy and the typical blue shade. Under the influence of the new companion Fernande Olivier appeared cheerful motifs and art historians talk about the pink period. Major turning point came with demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), which marked the advent of Cubism. The founder of a new artistic direction is regarded, along with Picasso French painter Georges Braque. Picasso style later modified in the so-called synthetic cubism, for example, when creating a collage of newspaper clippings, wallpaper or tram tickets and other materials. Like many other artists, Picasso and after the First World War found in the classical style. In 1937, he created one of his most famous paintings, which express the horror of the bombing of Guernica village. Also under the influence of fascist and Nazi crimes came in 1944 in the French Communist Party. Leftist minded remained until his death in 1973.