Pablo Picasso the genius painter, life story, famous works,family, wifes....
Pablo Picasso the genius painter, life story, famous works, family, wifes....
Pablo Picasso He was a famous painter. He was born on October 25 1881 in malaga, spain. His father's name was Don Jose Ruiz y blasco and mother's name was Maria picasso y Lopez. His father was a painter and arts teacher by profession.
Mentored by his father, he, by the age of 13, surpassed senior Picasso in terms of skill and talent.
| In 1895, his family relocated to Barcelona, Spain, and enrolled in the prestigious School of Fine Arts. But the strict rules of the school frustrated him and he began skipping classes to wander on streets of Barcelona and sketching whatever he observed. |
In 1897, he moved to Madrid to attend the Royal Academy of San Fernando. However, hear too the strict rules and formal instructions irked him to the extent that he stopped attending classes.
He moved around the lanes of Madrid, observing and painting what appealed his vision. He visited the Prado museum to see paintings by famous Spanish painters.
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| Pablo Picasso the genius painter |
Returning to Barcelona in 1899, he found himself to be a part of a group of artists and intellectuals who made their headquarters at a cafe called, El quatre gats. It was during this time that he moved away from his classical methods to indulge avant-garde art.
With Paris deemed as the World Center for avant-garde art, it was only natural for him to relocate to the city. As such, at the turn of the century, he moved to Paris to be at the epicenter of the world of art. He opened an art studio in Montmarte, Paris. He applied various techniques During his period, starting from the blurred technique to divisionism, and expressionism.
| Some of his famous paintings of this period include, 'blue nude' , 'la vie' and 'the old guitarist' . Most of his paintings were of circus people, acrobats and harlequins. Additionally, his works showcased the warm relationship that he shared with Fernando Olivier. |
In 1907, he along with his friend George Braque came up with a remarkable work that none until then had ever painted. Including sharp geometric shapes, 'Les Demoiselles d'avignon', showcased five nude prostitutes, abstracted and distorted with glaring blotches of blues, greens and grays.
The work became the precursor and inspiration of Cubism, for an artistic style that the two invented. The cubist style employed by him in his works became a revolutionary movement in the art world. Some of his memorable paintings of this era include 'three women', 'bread and fruit dish on a table', 'girl with mandolin', 'still life with chair caning' and 'card player'.
| The changing panorama of the world, which was at the juncture of World War One, brought about the next change in his art form. From the abstract and the distorted form, he moved to depicting the sombre reality of the world in his works. |
| In his lifetime, he married twice, first to a ballerina olga Khokhlova in 1918. They blessed with a son the two separated ways in 1927. Some of his neo-classical works that depict his return to realism in the period from 1918 to 1927, include 'three women at the springs', 'two women running on the beach or the race' and 'the pipes of pan'. That Harlequin was replaced by Minotaur, as the common motif in his work and the works of other surrealist painters. |
| His most outstanding and notablework of this time was the 'Guernica'. |
'Guernica' stands as a testament for the brutality, inhumanity and vicious nature of war. At the end of World War Two, he turned to politics. He joined the French Communist Party and attended the International Peace Conference in Poland.
However, critical comments for his stalin painting lessened his interest in politics, though he remained a loyal member of the Communist Party. However, the couple was not legally divorced. And the marriage ended only in 1955 after khokhlova's death.
post khokhliva's death he was into a romantic relationship with Marie-Therese Walter.
He fathered a daughter from the relationship. He then married Jacqueline Roque in 1961, at the age of 69. With her, he had two children.
| He breathed His last on April 8 1973, in Mougins, France. |
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