Pablo Picasso
Autor: Luis Felipe | Publicado: 2011-05-20T19:08:00-07:00

Pablo Picasso (Malaga, October 25, 1881 - Mougins, April 8, 1973) was a painter, sculptor and designer Spanish, having also developed the poetry.It was recognized as one of the masters of twentieth century art. It is considered one of the most famous and versatile artists around the world, having created thousands of jobs, not only paintings but also sculptures and ceramics, using short, all kinds of materials.He is also known as the co-founder of Cubism with Georges Braque.IndexSculpture in Daley Plaza (Chicago, USA).Born in the city of Malaga in Andalusia region of Spain, and received the full name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, son of Maria Picasso Lopez and Jose Ruiz y Blasco .Around birth there were several legends, some of which Picasso strived to promote. According to one, Picasso was born dead and the midwife has devoted his attention to the mother bedridden.Only the doctor, Don Salvador, saved from death by asphyxiation blowing you smoke a cigar in his face. The smoke made Picasso began to cry. His birth on 25 October 1881, at eleven and a quarter of the night, would be well described by Picasso to his biographers, who so willingly publishing.Roland Penrose, one of the most famous biographer of Picasso, sought their origins in the grounds of his genius and his openness to art, natural understanding of a genius. In his parents' generation are numerous traces. His father was a painter and designer of very mediocre talent. Don José was devoted to painting the birds that perched in the sycamore Plaza de la Merced, near his home.Occasionally, the child asked him to stop tables. The paternal lineage allowed to study until the year 1841. Offspring of mothers surveyed, Dona Maria had ancestors among the two painters.Picasso's features are also similar to the mother.The first ten years of life are passed on by Pablo Malaga [1]. The father's small salary as a museum curator and professor of drawing at the Escuela de San Telmo cost main breadwinner of the family. When he was offered a place with better pay in Eusebius Institute of Guarda, in the north, the hesitation was stronger than the need, and with his family, Don José leaves for La Coruna, the provincial capital on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean [1].The drawings represented Picasso's childhood scenes of bullfights. His first work, preserved, was an oil on wood, painted to eight years, called The Matador. Picasso retained the job for his entire life, taking it with you whenever you changed the house.Years later another painted a similar picture, the woman's death highlighted and futile. Picasso is angry and rebellious. This picture is clearly an invective of his relationship with his wife.The main concern of his father with little Pablo was his performance at school, but nonetheless dismissed the opportunity to foster the talent of the child. Early draw was the most appropriate way of expressing himself and Picasso, so maybe, secondary [1].Refusal clearly lecturing, and takes care himself of his artistic training [1]. With thirteen years, following the model of his father, Picasso had already reached the expertise of the parent (who was not of great refinement.) Unlike some lists that point, Picasso was right handed, as can be seen in the celebrated documentary The Mystery of Picasso.The family moved again, this time to Barcelona in the spring of 1895, and proof of admission to art school La Lonja is done successfully. The papers should submit at the end of the month, Pablo had them within a few days, after which his work stood out, even the finalists. [1] With fourteen years, Picasso was able to overcome the demands of a highly Academy of Art. Academic work, which according to himself, after several years of the scare.The work that was put him in the series of renowned painters from Barcelona, ​​and as Santiago Isidro Nonell Rusiñol, and frame the First Communion is exposed in the famous exhibition season in the city. [1] Despite opting for a religious theme, this does not cease to be a private event, the family plan. Although realistic and meet the academic requirements, on the other hand the work turns out to be an attempt to combat conventionalism.After a stay in Malaga in 1897 settled in Madrid.[Edit] Between Madrid and BarcelonaIn Madrid, installed a new studio, inscribed in the most prosperous and prestigious arts academy in Spain, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Constantly, visit the Prado Museum, where he copied the great masters, captured them the style and tried to imitate him, which proved, on the one hand, a breakthrough because it developed the capacity transient, and on the other hand, a stagnation a creative genius limited to copying the work of history, whose works also came to be the target of a revisitation and reinterpretation of Picasso at later stages.However, your stay in Madrid is interrupted. In early July of that year Picasso falls ill with scarlet fever and recovery forced him to return to Barcelona, ​​picking up next, with Manuel Pallares, his friend, to Horta de Ebro village in the Pyrenees. The gathering helped him restore ambitious new projects carried out so that he returned to Barcelona. Turned away from the academy and the paternal home, and tried to open up to the innovations of Spanish art, keeping in touch with their more famous. The cultivated area of ​​the Spanish vanguard was coffee Els Quatre Gats [1]. There she met the modernists and feuded with the art of these, influenced by Art Nouveau and the French avant britâncias.In 1900, the premises of that establishment, open to the public their first exposure. However, the desire to meet Paris increased even more.[Edit] Between Madrid and BarcelonaIn Madrid, installed a new studio, inscribed in the most prosperous and prestigious arts academy in Spain, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Constantly, visit the Prado Museum, where he copied the great masters, captured them the style and tried to imitate him, which proved, on the one hand, a breakthrough because it developed the capacity transient, and on the other hand, a stagnation a creative genius limited to copying the work of history, whose works also came to be the target of a revisitation and reinterpretation of Picasso at later stages.However, your stay in Madrid is interrupted. In early July of that year Picasso falls ill with scarlet fever and recovery forced him to return to Barcelona, ​​picking up next, with Manuel Pallares, his friend, to Horta de Ebro village in the Pyrenees. The gathering helped him restore ambitious new projects carried out so that he returned to Barcelona. Turned away from the academy and the paternal home, and tried to open up to the innovations of Spanish art, keeping in touch with their more famous. The cultivated area of ​​the Spanish vanguard was the Els Quatre Gats café. There she met the modernists and feuded with the art of these, influenced by Art Nouveau and the French avant britâncias.In 1900, the premises of that establishment, open to the public their first exposure. However, the desire to meet Paris increased even more.[Edit] Picasso in ParisAfter starting as an art student in Madrid, Picasso made his first trip to Paris (1900), the art capital of Europe. There he lived with Max Jacob (journalist and poet), who helped him learn French. Max slept at night and Picasso during the day, he worked at night. It was a period of severe poverty, cold and despair. Many of his drawings had to be used as combustible material for heating the room.Picasso, Halmstad.Soler in 1901 with a friend, founded a magazine Arte Joven in Madrid. The first edition was entirely illustrated by him. It was from that day, Picasso began to sign his work simply "Picasso," before he signed Pablo Ruiz y Picasso.In blue phase (1901-1905), Picasso painted the loneliness, death and abandonment. When you fell in love with Fernande Olivier, his paintings changed from blue to pink, inaugurating the pink phase (1905-1906). He worked through the night until dawn. In Paris, Picasso met a select group of friends, famous in the districts of Montmartre and Montparnasse: André Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, and writer Gertrude Stein.At this stage there are plenty of rose pink and red, characterized by the presence of acrobats, dancers, harlequins, circus performers, the circus world. In the summer of 1906 during a stay in Andorra, his work entered a new phase marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian and African, was the proto, the antecedent of Cubism. The famous portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905-1906) reveals a treatment of the face-shaped mask.In 1912, Picasso made his first collage, pasted on canvas pieces for newspapers, paper, textiles, cigarette packages.Fell in love with Olga Koklova, a ballerina. They married in July 12, 1918. During this period the artist has become known, was an artist in society. When Olga was pregnant, has created a series of paintings of mothers with children.Between the beginning and end of the 2nd World War (1939-1945), is also dedicated to the sculpture, engraving and pottery.As a writer, mastered the various techniques: etching, aquatint, dry-point, lithography and engraving on linoleum color. In addition, his dedication to the art of sculpture was sporadic. Head of Buffalo, Morph is a great example of his work with this medium. It is considered one of the pioneers in making sculptures from the junction of different materials.In 1943, Picasso meets the painter Francoise Gilot and has two children, Claude and Paloma, and found a little peace and painted Joy of Living.In 1968, aged 87, produced seven months in a series of 347 engravings by recovering the themes of youth: the circus, the bullfight, the theater, erotic situations. Years later, an operation of the prostate and bladder, as well as poor vision, puts an end to their activities. As a special honor to him, in his 90 th birthday is celebrated with great gallery exhibition at the Louvre. Thus becomes the first living artist to exhibit their work at the famous French museum. Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France at 91 years of age.