Pablo Picasso
Biography
Pablo Picasso is regarded to be the most important artist of the Modernist epoch, however his many successes still remains controversial. He was born in Málaga, 1881, and lived there until he was ten. He was a painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist. At young age, Picasso’s father, an academic painter and a professional teacher of art, realized that he had a genius son on his hands and taught his son everything he knew.
Picasso’s artistic talents developed at prodigious speed and quickly achieved mastery in the academic field of art in the year later. Picasso studied at the Academy in Barcelona, and also briefly, at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, but both institutions had not much to teach him. By the early 1900s, Picasso had moved to Paris, the "capital of the arts". There he found friends in Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and George Braque, and a burgeoning reputation as a painter of note. (Lucie-Smith, 1999)
After moving to Paris, his paintings were undergone through the Blue Period, which the paintings were painted in blue-tone colour symbolizing the grim and sadness feeling. Later, the Blue Period gave way to the new period called Rose period in which the painting method is in the opposite direction to the Blue Period, red-toned colour were employed in the painting to give a feeling of warmth and joyous. It wasn't until 1907, though, that Picasso really raised a commotion in the art world. His painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon marked the beginning of Cubism.
Causing confusion in the art world, Picasso spent his next fifteen years thinking about what could be done with Cubism. He has no specific style in his art; he was known to use two or more styles within a single painting. One notable exception is his Surrealistic painting Guernica (1937), regarded as one of the greatest pieces of social protest ever created.
Even in his advanced age, Picasso continues to maintain a position of world leadership with an inexhaustibly fresh vision. (Cleaver 1966, 254) Throughout his long and prospered life, He grew wealthy from all his artworks, dated many young women, entertained the world with his outspoken remarks, and painted until he died at the age of 91 in April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France. (Buchholz and Zimmermann, 1999)
Picasso’s artistic talents developed at prodigious speed and quickly achieved mastery in the academic field of art in the year later. Picasso studied at the Academy in Barcelona, and also briefly, at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, but both institutions had not much to teach him. By the early 1900s, Picasso had moved to Paris, the "capital of the arts". There he found friends in Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and George Braque, and a burgeoning reputation as a painter of note. (Lucie-Smith, 1999)
After moving to Paris, his paintings were undergone through the Blue Period, which the paintings were painted in blue-tone colour symbolizing the grim and sadness feeling. Later, the Blue Period gave way to the new period called Rose period in which the painting method is in the opposite direction to the Blue Period, red-toned colour were employed in the painting to give a feeling of warmth and joyous. It wasn't until 1907, though, that Picasso really raised a commotion in the art world. His painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon marked the beginning of Cubism.
Causing confusion in the art world, Picasso spent his next fifteen years thinking about what could be done with Cubism. He has no specific style in his art; he was known to use two or more styles within a single painting. One notable exception is his Surrealistic painting Guernica (1937), regarded as one of the greatest pieces of social protest ever created.
Even in his advanced age, Picasso continues to maintain a position of world leadership with an inexhaustibly fresh vision. (Cleaver 1966, 254) Throughout his long and prospered life, He grew wealthy from all his artworks, dated many young women, entertained the world with his outspoken remarks, and painted until he died at the age of 91 in April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France. (Buchholz and Zimmermann, 1999)