During this war-ravaged decade Picasso met a young lady named Dora Maar in 1936. She was a photographer. Dora Maar was his assistant, and helped him by taking photographs of him at work and and assisted him on his paintings. She became Picasso's new love.

In 1837, the republicans asked him to paint a large mural for the Spanish Paviloin at the Exposition Universelle which is in Paris. Guernica was chosen by Picasso as the subject to paint. He painted Guernica in only three weeks. It was over 20 feet (6 meters) wide. This painting was produced as one of the most powerful and famous paintings in the twentith-century art. To work on a picture of it's size, it took over a large studio in the Rue des Grands Augustins in Paris. "The painting presents a series of terrifying scenes. It shows the brutality of war and its savage destructiveness. Once paintings had been used to glamorize war; there is noglamour here, just the grim reality."

 

Picasso stayed in Paris through out WWI. Most of his friends left the city or took part in the fighting. This was a very depressing times for him. Eva, Pacisso's close companion died in 1915.

In 1917, his life took a new turn. Picasso was invited by a friend to design the costumes and sets for a new ballet called Parade. He designed sculptural costumes and cubist scenery. Unfortunatley, the play did not work out. During rehearsels he met a dancer named Olga Kokhlova. They got married and had a son named, Paulo, in 1921. For a while, Picasso's paintings had a happier feel, and his life seemed more sucessful.

 

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