Reading Comprehension I: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. He was the most creative and influential artist of the 20th century. From a very young age, Picasso was extremely skillful at drawing and painting. His restless personality led him to paint in many different styles.One style was his ‘‘blue period’’ of painting, when he concentrated on blue as the main color for his pictures. In 1907, Picasso painted a picture called les demoiselles d’Avignon, which shocked many people it was a painting of human figures represented by angular and distorted shapes. This led to a style of painting called Cubism. Much of Picasso’s work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of surrealism. Picasso achieved his higher goals and became one of the best known figures in 20th-century art. According to the Comprehension I, the second paragraph is mainly concerned with ..........
1 Picasso’s life and family
2 Picasso’s fields of interest
3 Picasso’s painting styles
4 Picasso’s personality and his skills