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Imagine you're a child from Spain more than a hundred years ago.
You love to draw so much that your very first word isn't Mama or Papa.
It's piz, short for lapis, the Spanish word for pencil.
You draw on paper, on walls, anywhere you can.
Your name is Pablo, and your whole world is full of pictures.
Your father is an art teacher, and one day, he hands you a brush.
From that moment, you know you're an artist. Imagine you're nine years old, painting your first real picture—a man riding a horse in a bullfight.
By the time you're 13, your father says you're better at painting than he is.
At 14, you take an art school exam that usually takes a month to finish, and you do it in one day.
In regular school, you get in trouble for doodling.
But when they send you to detention, you secretly enjoy it.
Why? Because the room is quiet and perfect for drawing.
That was the real Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous artists in the world.
He was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and loved drawing from the time he could hold a pencil.
He once said, every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Picasso's full name was super long, 23 words.
It included lots of names from saints and family members.
But Pablo Picasso is what everyone called him.
His dad taught him to paint, and helped him get into great art schools when he was still very young.
Even though he was very talented, Picasso didn't enjoy school much. He found it boring, and would rather spend time sketching.
He was often sent to the punishment room, which he loved, because he could draw all day without being bothered.
As a teenager, Picasso moved to Barcelona, and later to Paris, France.
Paris was full of artists, poets, and new ideas.
He was excited to be part of it, even though at first he had little money and lived in cold apartments, but he kept painting.
In 1901, a close friend of Picasso's died.
Picasso was heartbroken.
in. He painted in shades of blue and green, showing people who looked sad and lonely.
This time became known as his Blue Period.
One famous painting from this time is The Old Guitarist, which shows a man hunched over a guitar in soft blue tones.
A few years later, Picasso's life became happier.
He made new friends and fell in love.
He began using warm colors like pink and red.
This new time became his rose period.
He painted circus performers, clowns, acrobats, and dancers.
His paintings from this time feel softer and more joyful.
Picasso didn't want to paint the same way everyone else did.
He wanted to try something new.
In 1907, he created a painting called Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon.
The faces in the painting looked like masks, and the shapes were sharp and angular.
It didn't look realistic at all.
Together with another artist named Georges Braque, Picasso started something called Cubism.
Instead of painting people and objects how they looked, they painted them as if you were seeing all sides at once.
They used shapes like cubes, triangles, and rectangles to show faces, instruments, and buildings.
One fun cubist painting is Three Musicians, where the people look like they are made of colorful puzzle pieces.
At first people didn't understand this new style, but soon Cubism became one of the most important art movements of the 20th century.
In 1937, a small town in Spain called Guernica was bombed during a war.
Picasso was shocked and wanted to say something through his art.
He painted a huge black, white and gray picture called Guernica.
It showed people and animals in pain.
Crying, falling, running.
It was Picasso's way of protesting war and showing how terrible it can be.
Guernica became one of Picasso's most powerful paintings.
It's not pretty or fun.
It's serious and bold.
People all over the world saw it and understood his message.
War hurts everyone.
Another famous painting is Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon, made in 1907.
This painting shocked people when it first came out because it looked so different from other art.
It shows five women with sharp, flat faces, some of them looking like masks.
Picasso used bold colors and strong shapes.
This painting helped start the cubist movement and showed that art could be about ideas, not just perfect pictures.
Both of these paintings, Guernica and Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon, show how Picasso used his creativity to say something important and change the world of art forever.
One day in the 1940s, while living in Paris during World War II, Picasso was visited by German soldiers.
They came into his studio and saw a photo of his painting, Guernica, which shows the horrors of war.
her. One of the soldiers pointed to the picture and asked, �Did you do this ?� Picasso calmly replied, �No, you did.� This bold answer shocked the soldier.
Picasso used his art to speak out against violence, and he wasn�t afraid to say what he believed, even during dangerous times.
It�s just one more way he used creativity and courage to make a difference.
Picasso didn�t just stick to painting.
He also made sculptures, ceramics, prints, and even invented collage art, where you cut and glue different things together to make a picture.
He was always trying something new.
In his life, Picasso created over 50 ,000 pieces of art.
That's more than one piece every day for over 130 years.
He once said, Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
That means you can't just wait for ideas.
you have to keep trying and practicing.
Picasso lived to be 91 years old.
He painted almost until the day he died.
He loved art so much he never stopped learning or creating.
Picasso changed how people think about art.
Before him, most art was realistic.
After him, people realized art could be anything.
It could show feelings, ideas, and even dreams. He taught the world that art didn't have to look right to be meaningful.
He also believed that all of us are born with creativity.
His words remind us everything you can imagine is real.
Whether you paint with bright colors, make shapes with clay, or draw with crayons you are an artist, too.
So next time you pick up a pencil or paint brush, remember Pablo Picasso, the boy who never stopped drawing, the man who dared to break the rules, and the artist who inspired the world.
