A Man with Many Names

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso, a series of names honouring various saints and relatives All these names and all these words but meaning different things

For example, the meaning of Pablo is "little", Diego means "he who supplants" and Jose means – “honest, benevolent, brilliant and often inventive”

Picasso’s work through the years is like his name - of many parts with different meanings.

So, he had his

• Blue Period: 1901–1904

• Rose Period: 1904–1906

• African art and primitivism Period: 1907–1909

• Analytic cubism Period: 1909–1912

• Synthetic cubism Period: 1912–1919

• Neoclassicism and surrealism Period: 1919–1929

• The Great Depression to MoMA exhibition: 1930–1939

• World War II and late 1940s: 1939–1949

• Later works to final years: 1949–1973

Many different kinds of work paintings and sculpture just like his many names.

50,000 pieces of work, comprising

• 1,885 paintings;

• 1,228 sculptures;

• 2,880 ceramics,

• Roughly 12,000 drawings,

• Many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.

What’s in a name?

Picasso!!! A man with a name for all seasons and all sorts of works of art!