Picasso

b. October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain

d. April 8, 1973, Mougins, France“I paint what I know, not what I see.”

“Every masterpiece has come into the world with a dose of ugliness in it. This ugliness is a sign of the creator’s struggle to say something new.” – Gertrude Stein on Picasso.

Son of José Ruiz Blasco & María Picasso Lopez

His father was a professor of drawing; he started studying with his father when he was 10, but by 13 it was clear to everyone that he would surpass his father.

Pigeons Sketch--Age 8

“Portrait of the Artist’s Mother” (1896)

“Science and Charity” (1897)

“Young Girl with Bare Feet” (1895)

Then Picasso discovered Paris . . .

“The Moulin de la Galette” (1900)

“Embrace in the Street” (1900)

“Woman in Blue and White” (1901)

“Dwarf Dancer” (1901)

. . . and he entered “the Blue Period” (Late-1901 to Mid-1904)

“Evocation” (The burial of Casagemas), (1901)

“Self-Portrait with Cloak” (1901)

In 1904 he moved to Paris . . .

“The Actor” (1905)

“Family of Saltimbanques” (1905)

“The Harem” (1906)

“Portrait of Benedetta Canals” (1905)

“La Toilette” (1906)

“Portrait of Gertrude Stein” (1906)

“Self-Portrait” (1907)

“Head of a Woman” (1907)

“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907)

Cezanne “Bathers”

Ingres “Turkish Bath”

“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907)

“Woman with Pears” (1909)

Cubism . . .

A style of painting largely created by Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914.

Or . . .

Revolutionary, 20th-century art movement. It originated in c.1907 when Picasso and Braque began working together to develop ideas for changing the scope of painting. Abandoning traditional methods of creating pictures with one-point perspective, they built up three-dimensional images on the canvas using fragmented solids and volumes. In 1908, Braque held an exhibition of his new paintings that provoked the critic Louis Vauxcelles to describe them as bizarre arrangements of ﾔ cubes ﾕ . The initial experimental, ﾔ analytical ﾕ , phase (1907-12), of which Picasso and Braque were the main exponents, was inspired mainly by African sculpture and the later works of Cezanne. They treated their subjects in muted grey and beige so as not to distract attention from the new concept. The ﾔ synthetic ﾕ phase (1912-14) introduced much more colour and decoration and the techniques of collage and papiers coll 市 were very popular. Cubism attracted many painters as well as sculptors. These included Leger, Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Frantiek Kupka. The most important cubist sculptors (apart from Picasso) were Archipenko, Lipchitz and Ossip Zadkin. Although it was not an abstract idiom, cubism revolutionized artistic expression, and lent itself easily to adaptation and development. It is probably the most important single influence on 20th-century progressive art.

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“Nude with Drapery” (1907)

“In Cubism art consists of inventing and not copying.” – Fernand Léger

“Still Life with Liqueur Bottle” (1909)

“Girl with Mandolin” (1910) [Fanny Tellier]

“Woman in Armchair” (1913)

The Papier Collé Revolution

“Bottle of Vieux Marc” (1913)

Picasso goes on to become the most influential artist of the twentieth century . . .

“Harlequin and Woman” (1917)

“Portrait of Olga in an Armchair” (1917)

“The Bathers” (1918)

“Large Bather” (1922)

“The Lovers” (1923)

“The Woman with the Tambourine” (1925)

“Large Nude in a Red Armchair” (1929)

“The Crucifixion” (1930)

“Bather with a Ball” (1932)

“Woman at the Mirror” (1932)

“Guernica” (1937)

Joie de Vivre (1946)

“War and Peace” (1952)

“Massacres in Korea” (1951) [No Gun Ri Massacre?]

“Self-Portrait” (1972)