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Every year in the life of Picasso 0 1881 Picasso is born at 23:15 on 25 October in the city of Málaga, Andalusia, in southern Spain at 15 Plaza de la Merced 1 1882 2 1883 3 1884 4 1885 5 1886 6 1887 7 1888 8 1889 Picasso's training in the art of painting under his father begins 9 1890 10 1891 The family moves to A Coruña where his father becomes a professor at the School of Fine Arts 11 1892 12 1893 The juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away, and it can be said that his career as a painter has begun 13 1894 His father who finds his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing the precision of his technique, feels that he had surpassed him, and vowed to give up painting 14 1895 Picasso is traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, dies of diphtheria. He paints "Portrait of Aunt Pepa" The family moves to Barcelona, where his father takes a position at the School of Fine Arts. He persuades the officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance exam for the advanced class. This process often took students a month, but Picasso completes it in a week, and the jury admits him As a student, Picasso lacks discipline but makes friendships that would affect him in later life His father rents a small room for Pablo close to home so he can work alone, yet he checks up on him numerous times a day, judging his drawings. The two argue frequently 15 1896 He paints "The First Communion" 16 1897 Picasso's father and uncle decide to send the young artist to Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the country's foremost art school. Picasso set off for the first time on his own, but he dislikes formal instruction and stops attending classes soon after enrollment 17 1898 18 1899 Modernist period His exposure to the work of Rossetti, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch, combined with his admiration for favourite old masters such as El Greco, lead Picasso to a personal version of modernism in his works of this period 19 1900 First trip to Paris, then the art capital of Europe Meets Max Jacob who helps Picasso learn the language and its literature. Soon they share an apartment; Max sleeps at night while Picasso sleeps during the day and works at night. These are times of severe poverty, cold, and desperation. Much of his work is burned to keep the small room warm 20 1901 Beginning of the Blue Period (in Madrid during the first half of the year or in Paris during the second half). Many paintings of gaunt mothers with children date from the Blue Period. Picasso divided his time between Barcelona and Paris Picasso is influenced by a trip through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carles Casagemas During the first five months, Picasso lives in Madrid, where he and his anarchist friend Francisco de Asís Soler found the magazine Arte Joven (Young Art), which publishes five issues. Soler solicits articles and Picasso illustrates the journal, mostly contributing grim cartoons depicting and sympathizing with the state of the poor. The first issue is published on 31 March1, by which time the artist starts to sign his work Picasso. 21 1902 22 1903 Paints "La vie", "The Blindman's Meal", "Portrait of Soler", "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" and "Celestina" 23 1904 Beginning of the Rose Period Paints "The Frugal Repast Picasso meets Fernande Olivier, a bohemian artist who becomes his mistress, in Paris 24 1905 Paints "Au Lapin Agile" Picasso becomes a favourite of American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein. Their older brother Michael Stein and his wife Sarah also become collectors of his work. Gertrude Stein becomes Picasso's principal patron, acquiring his drawings and paintings and exhibiting them in her informal Salon at her home in Paris Picasso meets Henri Matisse Paints "Garçon à la pipe" 25 1906 The Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists Paints "Portrait of Gertrude Stein" 26 1907 Beginning of the African-influenced Period Picasso joins an art gallery that has recently been opened in Paris by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a German art historian and art collector who became one of the premier French art dealers of the 20th century impressed by African artefacts he saw in June 1907 in the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro Paints "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, "Nude with Raised Arms" 27 1908 Paints "Three Women" 28 1909 Beginning of the Analytic-Cubist Period 29 1910 30 1911 Picasso is arrested and questioned about the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre 31 1912 Beginning of the Synthetic-Cubist Period or Crystal Period Paints "The Aficionado", sculpts "Guitar" 32 1913 33 1914 Picasso was living in Avignon Death of Marcelle Humbert (Eva Gouel) from illness at the age of 30 During the war, Picasso is able to continue painting uninterrupted Kahnweiler's contract terminates due to his exile from France. Picasso's work is taken on by the art dealer Léonce Rosenberg. Picasso had an affair with Gaby Lespinasse 34 1915 35 1916 Exhibits "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" 36 1917 Frienship with Jean Cocteau First trip to Italy Paints "Woman with a Mantilla", "Figure in an Armchair", "Harlequin" 37 1918 Picasso marries Olga Khokhlova in Rome, a ballerina with Sergei Diaghilev's troupe.Tthey spent their honeymoon near Biarritz Picasso started his exclusive relationship with the French-Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg. Rosenberg rents the couple an apartment in Paris at his own expense. This was the start of a deep brother-like friendship Paints "Pierrot" et "Portrait d'Olga dans un fauteuil" 38 1919 Paints " Sleeping peasants", madkes a number of drawings from postcards and photographs 39 1920 Khokhlova introduces Picasso to high society, formal dinner parties, and other dimensions of the life of the rich in 1920s Paris Picasso and Igor Stravinsky collaborate on Pulcinella 40 1921 The two have a son, Paulo Picasso Paints "Nu assis s'essuyant le pied", "Nous autres musiciens " several large neoclassical paintings and two versions of the Cubist composition "Three Musicians" Khokhlova's insistence on social propriety clashes with Picasso's bohemian tendencies and the two live in a state of constant conflict 41 1922 42 1923 43 1924 44 1925 André Breton declares Picasso as 'one of ours' in his article "Le Surréalisme et la peinture", published in Révolution surréaliste." Les Demoiselles" is reproduced for the first time in Europe in the same issue Picasso exhibits Cubist works at the first Surrealist group exhibition Surrealism revived Picasso's attraction to primitivism and eroticism 45 1926 46 1927 Picasso meets 17-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter and begins a secret affair with her Picasso's marriage to Khokhlova ends in separation 47 1928 48 1929 49 1930 50 1931 Paints "The Red Armchair " 51 1932 52 1933 53 1934 54 1935 His daughter with Marie-Thérèse Walter, Maya Widmaier is born 55 1936 Appointed "director of the Prado, albeit in absentia by the Republicans. He takes his duties very seriously, supplying the funds to evacuate the museum's collection to Geneva 56 1937 Paints "Guernica" Guernica is exhibited in July at the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition and then in Scandinavia and England. The painting is sent to the United States to raise funds and support for Spanish refugees Expresses anger and condemnation of Francisco Franco and fascists in "The Dream and Lie of Franco" 57 1938 A few Picasso'a paintings are included in the Degenerate art auction in spring by the Nazi party 58 1939 During the Second World War, Picasso remainesin Paris while the Germans occupy the city. He wi often harassed by the Gestapo, he continues to paint On the occasion of his 1939 retrospective at MoMA, Life magazine wrote: "During the 25 years he has dominated modern European art, his enemies say he has been a corrupting influence. With equal violence, his friends say he is the greatest artist alive." 59 1940 Applies for French citizenship but is refused on the grounds of his "extremist ideas evolving towards communism" 60 1941 61 1942 Paints "Life with Guitar" Writes the play "Desire Caught by the Tail" 62 1943 63 1944 Paints "The Charnel House" Picasso wrote poetry as an alternative outlet began a romantic relationship with a young art student named Françoise Gilot. She is 40 years younger than he is Picasso grows tired of his mistress Dora Maar Picasso and Gilot began to live together joins the French Communist Party 64 1945 Although the Germans outlaw bronze casting in Paris, Picasso continues regardless, using bronze smuggled to him by the French Resistance 65 1946 66 1947 His daughter Clauder is born 67 1948 68 1949 His daughter Paloma is born Writes "The Four Little Girls" Exhibits in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 69 1950 His granddaughter Marina is born 70 1951 Picasso has a six-week affair with Geneviève Laporte, who is four years younger than Gilot 71 1952 72 1953 73 1954 74 1955 His son Paulo Picasso dies Khokhlova dies Appears as himself in the film "Le Mystère Picasso" (The Mystery of Picasso) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot 75 1956 76 1957 77 1958 Acquires the the Château of Vauvenargues near Aix-en-Provence 78 1959 His grandson Bernard is born 79 1960 Appears in Jean Cocteau's film "Testament of Orpheus" 80 1961 Picasso makes and paints ceramics at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris on the French Riviera Jacqueline Roque becomes his lover, and then his second wife Picasso constructs a huge Gothic home, and can afford large villas in the south of France, such as Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie on the outskirts of Mougins, and in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur He is an international celebrity 81 1962 82 1963 83 1964 84 1965 85 1966 86 1967 Refuses to be paid $100,000 for the sculpture commissioned by the city of Chicago. 87 1968 Produces a torrent of paintings and hundreds of coppperplate etchings 88 1969 89 1970 90 1971 91 1972 1973 Pablo Picasso dies from pulmonary edema and heart failure at Mougins, France on April 8 while he and his wife Jacqueline entertain friends for dinner 1974 Pablo Picasso is interred at the Château of Vauvenargues Picasso is honoured on stamp in the USSR 1975 1976 1977 Marie-Thérèse Walter hang herself 1978 1979 1980 1981 The "Guernica" is returned to Spain and is on exhibit at the Casón del Buen Retiro of the Museo del Prado. 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 Jacqueline Roque kills herself by gunshot 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 The "Guernica" painting is put on display in the Reina Sofía Museum when it opens

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