A ceramist, painter, printmaker, sculptor, and stage designer, Picasso was known for co-inventing the style of art known as collage, inventing constructed sculpture, and co-founding the Cubist movement.
The first cubist painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) comprises many traits of artist’s.
Picasso is believed to be one of the founders of cubism, an avant-garde art movement that appeared at the beginning of 20 th century. What inspired Picasso were the African and Oceanic tribes because of the powerful yet thoughtful artworks. Pablo Picasso was a prominent Spanish artist, famous for his numerous works of different styles and techniques. At first, society did not accept the art of cubism, especially for his painting ‘Les Demoiselles de Avignon’, since the woman looked scary looking and hardly realistic (2000-2005, robinurton). It was after those periods that Pablo Picasso really started on his cubism artworks, alongside Georges Braque (2000-2005, robinurton). While the mood has changed drastically, so did the colors as Picasso painted in mostly pinks and reds (2004, encyclopedia). His ‘Pink/Rose Period’ took place in 1905-1906 (2003, art history), during this period he painted quite a few paintings of circus performers (2004, encyclopedia). During this period, his paintings were rather depressive, as a symbol of the artist’s hard times during the beginning of the new century (encyclopedia). The ‘Blue Period’ took place in 1901-1904 and was called the blue period because almost all his paintings had shades of blue in them (encyclopedia). Pablo Picasso while in the early stages of his artist career had two painting periods called the ‘Blue Period’ and the ‘Rose Period’ (2003, art history).