Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Picasso is considered by many to be the greatest painter of the 20th century. He is best known as the inventor of a revolutionary art style, Cubism, and for his work as a painter, sculptor, and designer. He was born in Málaga, Spain, and spent most of his life in Paris. It was there that he met writer and art collector Gertrude Stein, who helped support him by purchasing many of his early works. One of the more remarkable qualities of Picasso’s career was the rapidity and ease with which he evolved from one artistic style to the next. His work between 1900 and 1906 was representative of the Impressionist style founded by masters such as Matisse, Monet, and Seurat. At that time he also experimented with a style borrowed from the Art Nouveau movement. The years between 1901 and 1904 are considered as his Blue Period. His work between 1904 and 1906 is known as his Pink Period. In 1907, we see the beginning of Cubism. During the Spanish Civil War, he painted his most historically significant work, Guernica (1937), as a protest of the bombing of the Basque town of the same name.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Frida Kahlo is perhaps the most recognizable female painter in the world. She was born in 1907 in Mexico City. Frida began painting while convalescing from a serious road accident at the age of 15. As a young girl, she sent her work to the painter Diego Rivera, whom she later married (1928). Characterized by vibrant imagery, many of her pictures were striking self-portraits. Pain, which followed her all her life, and the suffering of women are recurring and indelible themes in her surrealistic and often shocking pictures. Andrè Breton likened her paintings to ‘a ribbon around a bomb’.
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