Who is Pablo Picasso?
Pablo Picasso, whose full name is the lengthy Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso, was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He was born in 1881 and died in 1973. He is widely recognized as one of the most unique and influential artists of the 20th century, and was one of the founders of the cubism movement in painting. As a young man, Pablo Picasso studied art in Madrid, though he never completed his college degree. At the age of nineteen, he moved to Paris, where he would spend most of his life. In Paris, he joined an exclusive social circle that included artists and writers such as Andre Breton and Gertrude Stein. Pablo Picasso was married twice, but had many mistresses throughout his life. The paintings that Pablo Picasso completed immediately after his move to Paris, from 1901 to 1904, are considered to belong to his “Blue Period.” These paintings often featured prostitutes and beggars, and seem
BORN ON October 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was, in the words of art critic Robert Hughes, “the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure.” A child prodigy, (he did his first painting when he was eight) Picasso’s output was prodigious through out his life. He stands like a colossus in the world of 20th Century art and contributed and inspired to every movement of this century. If his paintings of the Blue and Rose period had symbolist leanings, his paintings in the 20s and 30s with their bizarre distortions of the human body were definitely surrealist. He did not subscribe to Expressionist theory that painting should reveal “the inner being of the author.” Picasso demanded, “How can anyone enter into my dreams, my instincts, my desires, my thought and, above all, grasp from them what I have been about – perhaps against my own will?” Picasso’s paintings are ranked some of the most expensive with his Garcon a la Pipe going for $ 104 million. Who says art does not pay? While Picass
