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Pablo Picasso
By peace | September 29, 2010
Pablo Picasso 1907 Photo in Paris, France
Pablo Picasso is the most famous artists of the twentieth century. His inventiveness and the number of works he created are legendary. If you think of modern art, Picasso is probably the first name that pops into your head. Art today would not be the same without him. In his art, he was continually searching for new ways of looking at the world.
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born on 25 October 1881 in Malaga, in southern Spain. His father was Jose Ruiz Blasco and his mother was Maria Picasso Lopez. Pablo showed his talent as an artist at a very young age. His first word was lapiz, which is Spanish for pencil. By age four, he was making careful drawings of the world around him. Later, Picasso claimed that he ‘never did any childish drawings’. It probably helped that his father was an art teacher.
Pablo Picasso had a very long and interesting life. He lived through two world wars, the invention of electricity, telephones, radio and TV, movies, automobiles, and airplanes. As the world changed, he was able to change with it. Unlike many artists, Picasso was successful and became famous quite quickly. He always knew how to attract attention. At 9 years old, Picasso was selling his drawings.
When Pablo was 10, his father moved the family, which now included Pablo’s two sisters, Conchita and Lola, to La Coruna, Spain. Pablo’s father took a job teaching art in a school in this port city. In 1892, Pablo enrolled at the school where his father taught. In his art classes Pablo did better than other students and received excellent grades on his final tests.
In the early 1900s, most artists painted objects as they really looked. The more real the subjects in their paintings looked, the better. Since his boyhood in Spain, Picasso could skillfully paint objects as they actually looked. By the time he was in his twenties, however, he was experimenting with different art styles. He decided to present the subjects of his paintings in a new way. He wanted to show the subject from several different angles at once. Because the image in the painting looked as if it was broken into little cubes, the style became known as Cubism.
Picasso experimented with different art styles all his life. He had made many paintings, sculptures, drawings, etchings and pottery by the time of his death at age 91, 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France. By the time he died, he was the richest artist in history.
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