The first trips to Paris

On the eve of a cubism. A cubism

After war. Contacts to surrealism

Minotaur and "Guernica"

After clearing

Guernica

Avignon maidens

The girl on a sphere

The sitting woman

The boy with a tube

Two sisters

Picasso the biography. Formation. Barcelona.

 Many researchers aspire to explain stylistic inconstancy of the artist its genes, attributing his mother the Jewish origin; however Picasso's family was most that is Spanish and even andaluzskoj and belonged by Wednesday of provincial petty bourgeoisie. The father of the artist, José Ruis Blasko (Picasso is a surname of mother of the artist), was the painter of an average hand and taught at art school in Malaga, then in lycée in La Korune where it has moved with the family in 1891, and, at last, at Art school in Barcelona where in September 1895 Pablo has joined it. Its present art education, despite stay within several months (winter 1897-1898) in the academic Madrid where he, however, to anything especially has not learnt as its skill in this area it was showed even earlier ("the Man in a peak-cap", 1895) here begins.
Art atmosphere of Barcelona in which not ordinary person of architect Gaudi (Picasso's workshop prevailed was before the house constructed by Gaudi), has been rather subject to external influences: Ar Nouveau, arts of Berdsli, Munch and northern expressionism as a whole, and in ready smaller degree - impressionism and the French painting, except for Stejnlena and Toulouse-Lotreka which influence was soon showed and in Picasso's creativity ("Dancer", 1901, Barcelona, Picasso's museum).

"Science and Mercy", 1897г.

Catalan artists, with which Picasso gets acquainted in cafe "Four cats", anew open El Greco, Surbarana, a medieval Catalan sculpture, Spain, more direct and passionate, than it was supposed by official training. This provincial and romantic intelligency has been deeply penetrated by social interests and differed the present uncontrollability of anarchical circles. Picasso, appear, strongly endured poverty and spiritual poverty of prostitutes and drunkards, habitues of cabaret and brothels of Barrio Chino; Picasso has found the basic lines of the characters in them and a theme of the future "blue" period (1901-1905).