Art is a lie, but it is a lie that tells the truth. ——Pablo Picasso Picasso’s works are usually divided into several periods. The names of the periods are still controversial, but they are roughly the "Blue Period" (1901-1904), the "Rose Period" (1905-1907, also known as the "Pink Period"), and the "Cubist Period" (1908 -1919). Picasso's signature

Picasso received training from his father from an early age and made amazing progress. This can be seen from the early works of Picasso in the collection of the Picasso Museum. During 1893, the childishness in Picasso's early works gradually disappeared. In 1894, Picasso could be said to have officially begun his career as a painter. In the mid-1890s, Picasso's paintings showed a strong traditional realism style. "The First Communion" (1896) is the representative work at this time. This painting shows the young Picasso. Already able to handle difficult details [5]. In the same year, the fourteen-year-old Picasso painted "Portrait of Aunt Pepa". Juan-Eduardo Cirlot once praised the vividness and spirit of the portrait. Said, "Without a doubt, one of the best paintings in the entire history of Spanish art."

In 1897, Picasso’s realism style was influenced by symbolism. In a series of landscape paintings, unnatural purple and green tones were added, which was Picasso’s realism period ( 1899-1900) characteristics. During this period, Picasso's works were influenced by Rossetti, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch, and incorporated the characteristics of the painter El Greco he admired, resulting in Picasso. Unique modern style. More information: Picasso's Rose Period In 1904, Picasso met Fernande Olivier, a model working for a sculptor and artist in Paris, and fell in love with him, thus starting the Rose Period (also known as the Rose Period). The famous pink period (1904-1906). Influenced by his sweet relationship with Fernand, Picasso used a large number of bright and optimistic orange and pink colors. The themes mostly depicted circus people, acrobats and clowns, which became Picasso's personal characteristics. one. The year 1904 is regarded as the transitional period between the Blue Period and the Rose Period.

Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica", 1937, collected at the Reina Sofia Art Center in Madrid. During the Second World War, he mainly lived in Paris. After Paris was recovered, he joined the French Communist Party.

Died in Mougan, France on April 8, 1973.

In May 2004, Picasso’s early work “Gar?on à la pipe” (Gar?on à la pipe) was sold for US$104 million, surpassing the price of a painting by Vincent van Gogh in 1990. Auction record of $82.5 million.