The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 136 - 137

Question 1

Picasso: The King of Modern Art

Answer 1

• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
• he shocked the world by introducing a new style and then moving on as soon as his unorthodoxy became accepted
• produced an estimated 50,000 works

Question 2

Blue Period

Answer 2

• 1901-4

- used shades of indigo and cobalt

Question 3

Rose Period

Answer 3

• 1905-6

- began after he met his first love and settles full-time in Paris

Question 4

“Negro” Period

Answer 4

• discovered the power of abstracted African masks around 1907

Question 5

Harbinger of Cubism: “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon”

Answer 5

• “Demoiselles” ended the nearly 500-year reign of Renaissance-ruled Western art

Question 6

Sculpture

Answer 6

• in 1912 his “Guitar” sheet metal assemblage completely broke the with the traditional methods of carving or modeling marble or clay

Question 7

Diversity

Answer 7

• he experimented with widely differing styles after world war 1