Relier Pairs Picasso periodsVersion en ligne Picasso periods par MR MR 1 CUBISM. During this period Picasso painted people, objects or cities with geometrical shapes. For example, he used triangles, squares, circles or rectangles. 2 ROSE PERIOD. He liked painting with pink, red and orange during this period. It was a short period in which he was very happy. He painted clows because he liked the circus. 3 BLUE PERIOD. He liked painting with blue and green during this period. He painted with blue because he was very sad. 4 AFRICAN PERIOD: During this period he liked painting in a style influenced by African Masks.