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Photo: Argentina. Revista Vea y Lea, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.Step into the vibrant, fractured, and fascinating world of Pablo Picasso. Test your knowledge on the genius who redefined art, his dramatic life, and his legendary masterpieces.
Blue Period Beginner 0–4 · Cubist Connoisseur 5–8 · Master of Modernism 9–10
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Guernica was painted in 1937 following the brutal aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes supporting Nationalist forces. The massive black-and-white canvas became a universal symbol of the horrors of war. Picasso refused to let it reside in Spain until democracy was restored.
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Picasso was born in the Andalusian city of Malaga, where you can still visit his family home today. Although he spent his formative youth in Barcelona and his adult life in France, his roots remained deeply Spanish. His full baptismal name actually consists of 23 words, honoring various saints and relatives.
Photo: Argentina. Revista Vea y Lea, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon depicts five female figures with fractured, geometric bodies. The work shocked his contemporaries, including Henri Matisse, who initially found it offensive. The faces of the figures on the right were heavily influenced by African tribal masks that Picasso had studied in Paris.
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Georges Braque and Picasso worked so closely together starting in 1908 that they compared themselves to mountain climbers roped together. Their artistic styles during this period were so closely aligned that it is often difficult to distinguish their unsigned paintings from one another.
Photo: Photographer non-identified, anonymous, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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These years are called his Blue Period: cool shades of blue for quiet, sad scenes of poor and lonely people. Hardly anyone wanted to buy these paintings back then, yet today they are among his most popular works. Next came his warmer Rose Period, full of circus performers and harlequins.
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Known simply as the Chicago Picasso, this 50-foot-tall outdoor steel sculpture stands in Daley Plaza. Picasso refused to accept his $100,000 payment for the design, choosing to donate it entirely to the city. Its abstract shape has been compared to a woman, a dog, or a giant bird.
Photo: J. Crocker, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Dora Maar was Picasso's companion and primary muse during the late 1930s. She documented the creation of Guernica and was the subject of his famous Weeping Woman series, which captured her personal anguish as well as the collective suffering of the Spanish Civil War.
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Steve Wynn accidentally put his elbow through the canvas of Le Reve (The Dream) while showing it to friends, just a day after agreeing to sell it for $139 million. After a meticulous $90,000 restoration, the painting was eventually sold in 2013 for an even higher price of $155 million.
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Bull's Head is a brilliant example of readymade art, created by joining a bicycle seat and a pair of handlebars. Picasso found the parts in a pile of junk in Paris. He later remarked that if someone threw his sculpture away, another person might find it and use it on a bike again.
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When Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, suspicion fell on Picasso and his friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Picasso had previously purchased stolen Iberian stone sculptures from an associate, but he was cleared of any involvement in the heist of the painting.
Photo: Leonardo da Vinci, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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