10th form "Pablo Picasso" Reading / Grammar

1. Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He experimented in many different styles and changed the world of art ____ his time.

2. Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. His father was a drawing teacher. At 10 Pablo became his father's pupil and at the age of 13 he ____ his first exhibition.

3. His family moved to Barcelona in 1895 where Pablo joined an art academy. In his early period the young artist painted life ____ oserved it around him - in cafes and in the streets.

4. In 1901 a close friend of Picaso shot himself and this had a great impact on Pablo. He was very sad and began ____ his pictures in grey and blue tones instead of bright, vivid colours.

5. Later on, he changed his painting style and started ___ more earth colours - rose, pink and brown. He liked to paint pictures of circus life with dancers and acrobats.

6. When Picasso started working with his friend and fellow painte Georges Braque in Paris they started experimenting with a new style ____ was called cubism.

7. Picasso and Braque didn't want to show nature as it really was. They thought that all subjects in nature had geometric forms. In cubism, objects ___ into many flat shapes which looked like a puzzle.

8. Cubist painters wanted ____ all parts of an object from one angle.

9. Picasso and Braque also experimented with other materials, like cloth and newspaper clippings, which they glued ___ the canvas. This technique became later known as collage.

10. In 1917 Picasso went to Rome to design costumes and scenery for a famous bellet company. During this period he fell back to classical forms and painting techniques but never ___ experimenting with cubism.

11. After the World War II Picasso moved to a big house in the southern part of France. There, he continued _____ with painting and sculpture.

12. He continued his work up to his death in 973. Picasso was known as a very ____ person and he also displayed this in his paintings. He was never satisfied with his own work and he never stopped experimenting. For his imagination and skill he is called "El Maestro" of modern art.