Pablo Picasso

and avant-garde opinions and abandoned their idea of fame through their son (Duane 17). Casagemas had become miserable too, after a failed relationship, he fell into a deep depression. Angry parents and a depressed friend prompted Picasso to move onto Madrid after only one night in Barcelona. A true starving artist in Madrid, Picasso hardly Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in October of 1881, in Malaga Spain, to Maria Picasso Lopez and Don Jose Ruiz Blasco, who …

…grants. It has been suggested that Picasso's habit of smoking opium was the reason he started using warm tones and painting happier themes, its possible that he was just as depressed and unhappy during the Rose Period as he was in the Blue Period. Works Cited Duane, O.B. The Life, Times and Work of the World's Greatest Artists: Picasso. London: Brockhampton, 1996. Wertenbaker, Lael T. The World of Picasso (1881-1973). New York: Time Life Books, 1967.