Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain. From an early age he displayed great talent for painting and began displaying his work from the age of 14. To further his artistic aspiration he left Spain for Paris where he became part of a new avant-garde movement of art. His early artistic career went through various states. One of the first states was known as the 'Blue Period' in his late teens his paintings were dominated by different shades of blue. By 1907, Picasso had developed a new form of painting known as 'cubism' this involved capturing the essence of the subject on the canvas but exaggerating certain features. In the 1920s and 30s Picasso concentrated on more classical works of art. He became interested in depicting the human form in the style of neo- classical. Not only did he manage to become universally famous in his own lifetime, he was the first artist to successfully use mass media to further his name (and business empire). He also inspired Cubism, invented, nearly every art movement in the twentieth century. His main inspiration included different people and things. Most of his inspirations were women. His next periods were called Classicism and Surrealism and they ran from 1917 until 1936. Just as the rest of the world, art also changed because of World War I. Picasso’s work became more realistic and his colors much darker. Around 1916, while working on the scene for a Russian Ballet production he fell in love with Olga Koklova, a Russian Ballerina. She left the ballet and moved in with Picasso and they got married in 1918. His lifestyle changed and he started to move around the high society circles because of her connections, and Picasso was no longer living a bohemian life that he was used to. This seems to have changed his work as well. Picasso’s painting became more traditional and more serious as well, which he called "classicist style," and this phase of his career is well expressed in his paintings, "The Lovers." Another...

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