Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and he died in France in 1973. Picasso's father was an art teacher in a local school. He wanted Picasso to become a great artist some day. Picasso's painting style changed more over the period of his life than any other great artist. He was always trying new and different things. When his best friend died, Picasso felt alone and sad and all of his paintings during this period contained lots of blue. This was called the Blue Period. Picasso explained the Blue Period by the fact that Prussian blue was the cheapest color that there was. He was indeed extremely poor at this time. Picasso's most important work of his Blue Peri