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Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the
20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain.
Picasso’s father was a professor of drawing, and he bred his son for a
career in academic art. Picasso had his first exhibit at age 13 and
later quit art school so he could experiment full-time with modern art
styles. He went to Paris for the first time in 1900, and in 1901 was
given an exhibition at a gallery on Paris’ rue Lafitte, a street known
for its prestigious art galleries. The precocious 19-year-old Spaniard
was at the time a relative unknown outside Barcelona, but he had already
produced hundreds of paintings. Winning favorable reviews, he stayed in
Paris for the rest of the year and later returned to the city to settle
permanently.
The work of Picasso, which comprises more than 50,000 paintings,
drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics produced over 80 years,
is described in a series of overlapping periods. His first notable
period–the “blue periodö—began shortly after his first Paris exhibit. In
works such as The Old Guitarist (1903), Picasso painted in blue tones to
evoke the melancholy world of the poor. The blue period was followed by
the “rose period,ö in which he often depicted circus scenes, and then by
Picasso’s early work in sculpture. In 1907, Picasso painted the
groundbreaking work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, which, with its
fragmented and distorted representation of the human form, broke from
previous European art. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon demonstrated the
influence on Picasso of both African mask art and Paul Cezanne and is
seen as a forerunner of the Cubist movement, founded by Picasso and the
French painter Georges Braque in 1909.
In Cubism, which is divided into two phases, analytical and synthetic,
Picasso and Braque established the modern principle that artwork need
not represent reality to have artistic value. Major Cubist works by
Picasso included his costumes and sets for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets
Russes (1917) and The Three Musicians (1921). Picasso and Braque’s
Cubist experiments also resulted in the invention of several new
artistic techniques, including collage.
After Cubism, Picasso explored classical and Mediterranean themes, and
images of violence and anguish increasingly appeared in his work. In
1937, this trend culminated in the masterpiece Guernica, a monumental
work that evoked the horror and suffering endured by the Basque town of
Guernica when it was destroyed by German war planes during the Spanish
Civil War. Picasso remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation but was
fervently opposed to fascism and after the war joined the French
Communist Party.
Picasso’s work after World War II is less studied than his earlier
creations, but he continued to work feverishly and enjoyed commercial
and critical success. He produced fantastical works, experimented with
ceramics, and painted variations on the works of other masters in the
history of art. Known for his intense gaze and domineering personality,
he had a series of intense and overlapping love affairs in his lifetime.
He continued to produce art with undiminished force until his death in
1973 at the age of 91.
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