![]() ![]() As she had with other promising figures such as Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound, Gertrude befriended the young artist. In 1902, Picasso returned to live in Barcelona for the last time and began to draw with a new sense of sculptural form, often using a theme of two people meeting. The Blue Period continued through 1904 when he moved back to Paris permanently and met Fernande Olivier, his lover for several years. Slowly he began to turn away from the melancholic monochrome palette. Though The Actor (1904-1905) suggests a sense of suffering similar to the works just before it, the pink clothing indicates a break from the Blue Period and heralds Picasso's new obsession with the circus and stage. Around this time, Picasso met the Americans Leo and Gertrude Stein, who were just settling into the local cultural milieu. In 1895, Picasso began studying at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, then in 1897, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid where he began to feel the urge to become a Modern artist on his own terms. At the end of the summer of 1900, Picasso moved to Paris for the first time. After returning to Barcelona for a while, he went back to Paris in 1901 where he had his first exhibition with Ambroise Vollard. Because he couldn't afford comfortable living arrangements, he visited the galleries of the Louvre just to keep warm. His sad images from this interval form the Blue Period and are saturated with the depth of his depression. Although he sold pieces that are now among his most famous, Picasso did not earn enough money for more art materials. ![]() Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in 1881 in the town of Malaga, Spain, where he lived for the first 10 years of his life. Pablo's mother, María Picasso López, was of Andalusian stock and his father, José Ruiz Blasco, coming from a family of minor aristocrats, did not work until the age of 37, when he became an art instructor.
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