Artist Name: Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881 – 1973
Pablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of 20th century, when it comes to art. Nobody, prior to Picasso, has had the same impact on the art world like him (Pablopicasso, 2019).
Art Style: Cubism, Symbolism, Modernism & Surrealism
Inspiration: Paul Cézanne, Henri Rousseau, etc (Pablopicasso, 2019).
Associated with: “Oddly” shaped faces & his use of geometric shapes and collages
Facts: Picasso was born in Spain, 1881. Picassos father was a painter himself and a professor of art. He was impressed of Picasso’s paintings from the beginning and was a huge support throughout Picasso’s whole childhood. Picasso was extremely talented already at an early age. Combining his technique for realism and learning more about symbolic influences, led to Picasso’s own take on modernism. He then moved to France and where he spent his adult life life working as an artist. Picasso tried many different types of art styles throughout his life. His art has been divided into periods of time where he created complex themes, for examples the blue period (1901-1904), & Cubism (1909-1919) etc. Picasso, together with Georges Braque was the founder of the Cubist movement. This movement forever changed European painting and sculpture. In cubism objects are broken up into pieces and re-arranged in an abstract form. The art he created his last years were a mix of many styles he had tried throughout his life. He started being even more ”brave”, creating bigger sculpture and more colorful paintings (Pablopicasso, 2019).
Do I like his art? Yes! I think he was an amazing artist. The fact that he could create so many different types of art is incredible. I also like his use of colors in some of the paintings, such as “Girl Before A Mirror”. I actually went to The Picasso museum in Barcelona, which is located in the building that used to be his home for a while.
Reference: Pablopicasso, (2019), Pablo Picasso and his paintings. Retrieved from https://www.pablopicasso.org
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