Biography of Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881 in Malaga , Spain . The son of Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez . His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso . Often referred to simply as Picasso .

Picasso’s father was a painter whose specialty was the naturalistic depiction of birds and who for the most of his life was also a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum . Picasso’s father quickly recognized that his child Pablo was a prodigy . In 1891, the family, including Picasso's two younger sisters, Concepción and Lola, moved to La Coruña, on the Atlantic coast . Picasso's father got another job as a drawing teacher, at the college in town . The young Picasso showed a passion and skill for drawing from an early age , He was a brilliant student . Picasso enrolled in his father's class on ornamental drawing and took other courses on figure-drawing and landscape-painting . In 1895 his family moved to Barcelona , Spain . After his father obtained a teaching post at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts . 14th years old Picasso has admitted to advanced classes at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts after he completed in a single day the entrance examination that applicants traditionally were given a month to finish .
When he was 14, he also painted oil portraits of family friends, but also of assorted misfits. These early efforts were both technically accomplished and warmly sympathetic;
his "Girl with Bare Feet" looks nothing like a child's work . Two years latter (1987) Picasso left Barcelona to study at Academia de San Fernando in Madrid , Spanish Capital . He found the school stodgy and thus rarely showed up for class. Instead, He learned from the old master paintings at the Prado art collection; here he first admired the work of the Baroque Spanish painters Velázquez and El Greco, which deeply impressed him.

In 1900 He made his first trip to Paris , the art capital of Europe. In Paris, he lived with Max Jacob (journalist and poet) , who helped him learn French. In 1901, with his friend Soler, he founded the magazine Arte Joven in Madrid. The first edition was entirely illustrated by him. From that day he started to simply sign his work Picasso, while before he signed Pablo Ruiz y Picasso . In February Picasso’s friend Carlos Casagemas committed suicide , he shot him self because the girl he loved had refused him . During this period Picasso’s painting used the color blue , starting in autumn of 1901 He painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas , culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie (1903) , Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art . In 1904 Picasso finally settled in Paris , at 13, Rue Ravignan (until 1909) and he met Fernande Olivier , a Model . it is She who appears in many of the Picasso’s Rose period paintings . After acquiring fame and some fortune , Picasso left Olivier for Marcelle Humbert , whom Picasso called Eva . Picasso was married twice and had four children by three women . In the summer of 1918 , Picasso married with Olga Khokhlova . Khokhlova introduced Picasso to high society , formal dinner parties , attendant on the life of the rich in 1920s Paris . The two had a son Paulo , who would grow up to be a dissolute motorcycle racer and chauffeur to his father . Khokhlova’s insistence on social propriety clashed with Picasso‘s bohemian tendencies and the two lived in a state of constant conflict . In 1927 Picasso met 17 year old Marie Therese Walter and began a secret affair with her and fathered a daughter , Maia , with her . Marie Therese lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her , and hanged herself four years after Picasso’s death .

During the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ) , Picasso remained in Paris while Germans occupied the city . Picasso’s artistic style did not fit the Nazi views of art , so he was not able to show his works during this time. After the liberation of Paris in1944 , Picasso began to keep company with a young art student , Francoise Gillot . The two become lovers and had two children , Claude and Paloma . Unique among Picasso’s women , Gillot left Picasso in 1953 , this become severe blow to Picasso . But Picasso was not long in Finding another lover , Jaqueline Roque . Roque worked at the Madoura Pottery in Vallaurison the French Riviera , where Picasso made and painted ceramics . The two remained together for the rest of Picasso’s life , marrying in1961 . Their Marriage was also the means of one last act of revenge against Gillot .

In addition to his manifold artistic accomplishments , Picasso had a film career including a cameo appearance in Jean Cocteau’s Testament of Orpheus . Picasso always Played himself in his film appearances . In 1955 he helped make the film Le Mystere Picasso ( The Mystery of Picasso ) directed by Henri Georges Clouzot .

Pablo Picasso died in April 8 , 1973 . In Mougins , France , while he and his wife Jacquelin entertained friends for dinner . His final words were “ Drink to me , drink to my health , you know I can’t drink anymore .” He was interred at Castle Vauvenargues’ Park , Vauvenargues , Bouches – du – Rhone .

ORIGINAL PAINTING

Pablo Picasso was the most famous, versatile, prolific and influential artist of the 20th Century . Pablo Picasso’s Paintings mostly by handmade oil paintings . Some paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world.

• "Nude on a black armchair" - sold for USD $45.1 million in 1999 to Les Wexner, who then donated it to the Wexner Center for the Arts.
• Les Noces de Pierrette - sold for more than USD $51 million in 1999.
• Garçon à la pipe- sold for USD $104 million at Sotheby's on May 4, 2004, establishing a new price record.
• Dora Maar au Chat - sold for USD $95.2 million at Sotheby's on May 3, 2006.[18]

PAINTING BY YEAR
Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1905–1907), the African-influenced Period (1908–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919).

BLUE PERIOD

Picasso’s Blue Period was from 1901 – 1904 . This was a period of mourning for Picasso , over his dead friend , Casagemas . This period of Picasso’s painting , He used the colour blue and blue – green , only occasionally warmedby other colours . Starting in autumn of 1901 he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas , culminating in the gloomy allegoricalm painting La Vie , Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art . The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast (1904), which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso's works of this period, also represented in The Blindman's Meal (1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and in the portrait of Celestina (1903). Other works include Portrait of Soler and Portrait of Suzanne Bloch .‎

ROSE PERIOD
The Rose Period (1904–1906) is characterized by a more cheery style with orange and pink colors, and featuring many acrobats and harlequins. The harlequin, a comedic character usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, became a personal symbol for Picasso . Here some Picasso’s painting in Rose Period Woman in a Chemise , (Madeleine) (1904-05) , Lady with a Fan (1905) , Two Youths (1905) , Harlequin Family (1905) , Harlequin's Family With an Ape (1905) , La famille de saltimbanques (1905) , Boy with a Dog (1905) , Nude Boy (1906) , The Girl with a Goat (1906) .

AFRICAN-INFLUENCED PERIOD
Picasso's African-influenced Period (1907–1909) begins with the two figures on the right in his painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which were inspired by African artifacts. Formal ideas developed during this period lead directly into the Cubist period that follows.

ANALYTIC CUBISM

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon represents Picasso's époque negre which was inspired by African art and overlaps the first phase in cubism, which is called analytical cubism (1909 – 1912) . Analytical cubism lasted until 1911 and is characterized by monochrome brownish colour , relatively unemotional paintings that depict rather uneventful subjects .The work is difficult to read (interpret) and is willfully ambiguous. Picasso paintings at this time are very similar to each other . Pablo Picasso , Three Musicians , 1921 ( the Museum of Modern Art ) .

SYNTHETIC CUBISM

Synthetic cubism (1912–1919) Picasso marked the change into the second stage of Cubism, Synthetic Cubism in 1912, with the creation of his first collage, Still Life with Clair Caning. This stage of Cubism was characterized by a wider usage of color and decoration, although shapes in the paintings remained flat and fragmented. Picasso also created several Cubist sculptures, like Head of a Woman, 1909,along with various constructions made from different materials.

Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973