Pablo Picasso for Kids !🎨 | Art History for Kids

let's learn about pablo picasso pablo picasso was a spanish artist who was born in spain in october 1881 about 140 years ago he is one of the most famous and recognized artists in the world today he started a love for art when he was just a young boy his father was also an artist and art teacher and saw so much talent in his son when he was very little pablo picasso was very talented at realistic drawings and paintings meaning that the things he created were so good they looked real eventually pablo picasso went to school

to study art in spain and he would visit museums and see the work of famous spanish artists like diego velazquez and el greco he would copy their artworks to learn their techniques many artists learn different ways to create art by copying other people pablo picasso painted an artwork called the portrait of amp peppa when he was only 14 years old and another called science and charity when he was only 15 years old but pablo picasso wanted to create a new style of art and not just paint like the people before him when he was 20

years old he moved to paris france and lived in a tiny apartment creating art and learning new styles with other artists who he became friends with [Music] when he was about 21 years old he started making a lot of artworks that were blue this is said that he was sad because one of his friends had died it became known as pablo picasso's blue period [Music] he painted a painting known as the old guitarist during that time and later when he was happier he started using the colors pink and orange in his paintings and this was

known as the rose period a few years later pablo picasso became inspired by african art and his artwork started looking less realistic and more primitive but picasso is probably most recognized by art he started to develop called cubism he didn't think that art needed to look exactly like what he was drawing or painting he started to create different shapes and angles a table would no longer look like a table it looked like it was chopped up and put back together then viewed from different angles all at once the human body in picasso's paintings started to

take new forms he would even create people's faces like that too using bright unnatural colors like blue skin or green hair and parts of the face that didn't look real from when he was young to when he was an old man picasso's style of artwork changed entirely he wasn't just a painter but also created sculptures drawings ceramics and even rugs he loved to create art so much it is estimated he created over 50 000 different paintings drawings sculptures ceramics and objects some people think that pablo picasa's later artworks are easy to create because they were

simple almost childlike [Music] but he was one of the first artists of his time to make art look the way it did he created new styles from old masters pablo picasso had to learn the rules of art in order to break them comic kids