PABLO PICASSO

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain; He was a child who was recognised by his art-teacher, father, who kindly guided him. Museo de Picasso in Barcelona was committed mainly to his work early profession as a sculpture.

He was rebellious and, when he was a teenager he was interested in meeting interesting, intelligent characters, he met them in cafes in Barcelona. He spent the next few years going back and forth to Barcelona to Paris ‘the capital of art’, where he met other artists who inspired him such as manet, Gustave Courbet, and Toulouse- Lautrec.

He experimented in different styles of painting such as realism, caricature, the Blue Period and the Rose Period. The Blue Period was sombre with hues of blue and followed the suicide of one of his closest friends. “The Rose Period began around 1904 reflect a change of mood as his paintings brightened up and he painted lots of clowns and circus people.

Picasso went to Holland where he produced classic paintings in the style of Greek art. He was very impresses with the work of Henri Matisse who was making an impact because of his use of his unusual combinations of bright colours and unique style. He was also fascinated by the works of Henri Rousseau whose paintings were very imaginative and colourful. He had another interest in African art.

Cubism is essentially the fragmenting of the three- dimensional forms into flat areas of pattern and colour, overlapping and intertwining so that the shapes and parts of the human anatomy are seen from the front and back at the same time. ‘He created the style with his friend Georges Braque, and their early works were extremely similar.

The Cubism became very popular all around the world for half a century. Picasso experimented with all sorts of techniques including collage.

Picasso was a leading light to the art world and was appointed to be the director of the Prado in Madrid which has one of the finest collections of art in the world. The Republican government in January 1937, asked him to paint a mural for the Spanish pavilion at the world exposition in Paris. This painting is called the Guernica and is about the horrors that he saw during the Spanish civil war. Picasso did gloomy paintings after the Second World War but later did different styles of art and continues to experiment.