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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso 1962
Birth name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de
los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y
Picasso
BornOctober 25, 1881Málaga, Spain
Died8 April 1973 (aged 91)Mougins, France
Nationality Spanish
Field Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking, Ceramics
TrainingJose Ruíz (father), Academy of Arts, Madrid
MovementCubism
Works Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)Guernica (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937)
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios
Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October
25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was an Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and
sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is
best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of
styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and his depiction of the German bombing of
Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica (1937).
Contents[hide]· 1 Biography o 1.1 Personal life o 1.2 Political views ·
2 Art o 2.1 Before 1901 o 2.2 Blue Period o 2.3 Rose Period o
2.4 African-influenced Period o 2.5 Cubism o2.6 Classicism and surrealism o
2.7 Later works · 3 Commemoration and legacy ·4 Children ·5 Notes
· 6 References · 7 External links o 7.1 Museums o 7.2 Essays
Biography
Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María
de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito, a series of names
honouring various saints and relatives. Added to these were Ruíz and Picasso,
for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish custom. Born in the
city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don
José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López. Picasso’s family was
middle-class; his father was also a painter who specialized in naturalistic
depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life Ruiz was a professor
of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Ruiz’s
ancestors were minor aristocrats.
The house where Picasso was born, in Málaga
The young Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age;
according to his mother, his first words were “piz, piz”, a shortening of
lápiz, the Spanish word for ‘pencil’.[1] From the age of seven, Picasso
received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil
painting. Ruiz was a traditional, academic artist and instructor who believed
that proper training required disciplined copying of the masters, and drawing
the human body from plaster casts and live models. His son became preoccupied
with art to the detriment of his classwork.
The family moved to La Coruña in 1891 so his father could become a professor at
the School of Fine Arts. They stayed almost four years. On one occasion the
father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing
the precision of his son’s technique, Ruiz felt that the thirteen-year-old
Picasso had surpassed him, and vowed to give up painting.[2]
In 1895, Picasso's seven-year old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria - a
traumatic event in his life.[3]After her death, the family moved to Barcelona,
with Ruiz transferring to its School of Fine Arts. Picasso thrived in the city,
regarding it in times of sadness or nostalgia as his true home.[4] Ruiz
persuaded the officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance
exam for the advanced class. This process often took students a month, but
Picasso completed it in a week, and the impressed jury admitted Picasso, who
was still 13. The student lacked discipline but made friendships that would
affect him in later life. His father rented him a small room close to home so
Picasso could work alone, yet Ruiz checked up on him numerous times a day,
judging his son’s drawings. The two argued frequently.
Picasso’s father and uncle decided to send the young artist to Madrid’s Royal
Academy of San Fernando, the foremost art school in the country.[4] In 1897,
Picasso, age 16, set off for the first time on his own. Yet his difficulties
accepting formal instruction led him to stop attending class soon after
enrollment. Madrid, however, held many other attractions: the Prado housed
paintings by the venerable Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, and Francisco
Zurbarán. Picasso especially admired the works of El Greco; their elements,
like elongated limbs, arresting colors, and mystical visages, are echoed in
Picasso’s œuvre.
Personal life
After studying art in Madrid, Picasso made his first trip to Paris in 1900,
then the art capital of Europe. There, he met his first Parisian friend, the
journalist and poet Max
