Cultural Corner
1.People generally agree that Pablo Picasso, who lived from 1881 to 1973, is the twentieth-century’s greatest western artist.
He was born in Spain and at the age of ten was already an excellent artist.
He had is first exhibition at the age of 16.
Picasso studied art in Spain, but moved to France, in his early twenties.
From 1902 to 1904 he painted a series of pictures where the main colour was blue.
These pictures showed poor, unhappy people and are known as Picasso’s “blue period”.
From 1904 to 1906 Picasso painted much happier pictures in the colour pink.
This period was known as Picasso’s “pink period”.
With another Spanish artist called George Braque, Picasso then started an important new artistic movement called Cubism.
Picasso’s first Cubist paintings were all painted in brown and grey.
People agree that Picasso’s greatest Cubist painting is Guernica, which was painted in Madrid in 1937.
Guernica is the name of a town that was destroyed during the 1930s war in Spain.
In this painting, Picasso showed his feelings about what had happened to the town.
本文来源：https://www.2haoxitong.net/k/doc/a175805f3b3567ec102d8a47.html
文档为doc格式