Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso.

1. Frequented the Fiestas Modernistas of Catalonia.

   • Helped design several covers of Quatre Gats.
     • Impressed by portraits of friend Casas, did one of his own which led to exhib of work in 1900.
   • interested in new pictorial ideas of the French.
     • painting accepted into 1900 Exposition Universalle.
     • inspired by impressionism/post-impressionism, went to Paris with friend Cassagemas as a guest of modernist painter Isidre Nonell.
       • Returned to Spain 1900.
         • Suicide of Cassagemas 1901 led to 'Blue Period'.
           • BLUE PERIOD MIND MAP.

2. Broke away from academic art training and moved to Barcelona

3. Style circa 1900: Mutes and mingles figures w/ light, brushstroke heavy and rapid, great attention to volumes.