Born on the 25th October 1881, given the full name of Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Mártir Patricio Ruiz y Picasso.

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Picasso's father was a professor in art. At the age of eight Pablo completed his first oil painting, Picador. In 1895 he completed La Première Communion and entered the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Barcelona.

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In 1897 he was accepted into the San Fernando Academy in Madrid. During the following years he travelled to Paris and worked selling pastels with a friend, Carlos Casagemas, who would later commit suicide (an action which deeply affected Picasso and his work).

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In 1901 he painted La Mort de Casegemas and the years leading to 1904 would be known as his 'blue' period because of the frequent use of the colour in paintings which expressed the theme of death, old age and poverty through the use of objects such as the blind, poor and beggars.

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A more positive 'rose' period would follow, with paintings touching on joy and anxiety, with reference to the zoo and the circus. From 1907 began a period influenced by African art leading to the cubism for which he is most famous. The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon incoporated both of these styles and is regarded as the first cubist painting.

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Picasso's cubist method separated a painting into blocks. The use of geometric shapes, often squares, allowed for the attribution of various diverse aspects into a relatively simply object or portrait. In 1909 Picasso began to create sculptures, notably Tête de Fernande, and in 1910 painted the portraits of Uhde, Ambroise Vollard, and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.

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From 1925 Picasso's paintings took on a surrealist theme with distorted imagery. The same year he took part in a surrealist exhibition in Paris. In 1928 he begins a collage named the Minotaur, a recurring object in his work during the mid 1930s.

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Picasso's painting would be affected by the Spanish Civil War, especially the bombing of Guernica in 1937. A painting of his by this name would symbolise the horror and anger he felt. Into the second world war his paintings would reflect negative feelings.

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Picasso remained in Paris until the end of WW2 and joined the French Communist Party. After WW2 his paintings became more positive, returning to a theme on the joy of life. In 1946 he visited the artist Matisse in Nice.

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In the next decade Picasso would express pacifism through his paintings, notably the 1949 Colombe de la Paix for which he would receive the International Peace Prize in 1955, Massacre en Corée in 1951, and La Guerre et la Paix in 1952.

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He would spend the next two decades completing many sculptures and paintings before his death on the 8th April 1973. He is buried in the park of the Vauvenargues palace in Bouches-du-Rhône.

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