After trips to Paris between 1900-1902, Picasso decided to settle there in 1904 where he was influenced by Paul Gauguin and the group of symbolist painters called the Nabis.
The influence of Edgar Degas and Toulous lautric is clearly shown in the blue room, 1901- which was the start of his evolution towards the blue period.
In this phase the colour blue was very frequent and dominated his work contrasting the theme of portraying human suffering and misery, in many case as also reflecting the style of Elgreco in the use of elongated figures.
(Rose period)
Whilst in Paris Picasso met Fernando Oliver shortly after ariving there, he was the first of companions he would influence there style,theme, and mood of his work.
His mood changed quite a lot after he found happiness and joy in his life, these feelings are expressed in his changing pallete to reds and pinks.
(Modern Era)
Picassoo and his fellow Artist George Braque, who was french are well known for creating a abstract style called cubism.
Cubism meaning a object which is often shown from several different angles at the same time, the majority of Picasso's work was resolved around the use of different shapes.
Picasso had many great paintings but many agree this his greatest work is the large maral (wall painting) that he produced in 1937 to protest th bombing of the basque village of Guernica during the Spanish cival war (1936-39).
This particular painting is a combination of nightmarish images of the suffering and destruction that went on during this period, its highyly expressive cubist arrangement.
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