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The Artistic Genius
By peace | September 30, 2010
Self-Portrait of Pablo Picasso
On 25 October 1881, in Malaga in southern Spain, an art teacher and his wife had a baby boy. They named him after many saints and relatives: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de La Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Picasso’s parents wanted him to be an artist. As a little boy, he often went to bullfights (his hobby) with his father. Picasso’s first known painting was of a bullfight. He was only about 8 years old when he did it. Everyone though Picasso was an artistic genius. Years later that baby became known as the great artist, Pablo Picasso.
Picasso made all kinds of art and plenty of it. He worked hard every day for more than 80 years. Some people say he created 50 000 pieces of art. He must have had tons of energy. The above shows a self-portrait of Pablo Picasso — Picasso’s painting of himself in spring of 1907. At that time he was studying African sculptures and creating a new art style called Cubism.
Picasso made paintings, posters, sculptures in stone and metal, ceramics, drawings, collages, prints, poetry, theater sets, costumes, and more. Picasso kept thinking of new ideas. He was creative and skilled, but as soon as he mastered a certain style, he’d move on. As a result, the way he painted changed more than any other great artist. It would be impossible for him to signed his whole name on a painting. So he just wrote “Picasso”.
Picasso could draw before he could talk. When he was little, he liked to draw spirals. He would sometimes draw pictures in the sand. If he drew a horse, he could start from any point — the tail or the leg — and make a very good picture in one line. He could do the same with paper and scissors.
Through his art, Picasso sent powerful messages about politics, society, peace and love. Because of Picasso, the dove is considered a symbol of peace. And his most famous painting, Guernica, shows the horror and brutality of war.
Picasso’s art could be serious or playful, childlike or realistic, colourful or dark, simple or complex. When he was a child, he could draw as well as a talented grow-up. But the older he got, the more he wanted to make art like a child.
TimeLine of Pablo Picasso’s Life and TimeLine of The World
1879 – Albert Einstein is born
1881 – Pablo Picasso born on 25 October
1889 – Picasso paints first oil painting, age 8
1895 – Picasso moves to Barcelona and goes to School of Fine Arts
1897 – Picasso’s first show at Els Quatre Gats Cafe
1900 – World’s Fair in Paris
1901 – Casegemas dies; Blue Period begins; Picasso moves back and forth between Spain and France, 1901-1904
1903 – Wright brothers fly a plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1906 – Picasso paints Gertrude Stein; meets Matisse and Braque
1912 – Picasso first collages
1912 – The Titanic sinks on its very first voyage on 14 April
1914 – World War I starts
1918 – World War I ends; Great influenza epidemic kills an estimated 20-40 million people around the world
1921 – Son Paulo born to wife Olga Khokhlova
1925 – First surrealist show
1929 – The New York stock market crashes, setting off the Great Depression
1933 – Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Nazi Germany
1936 – Spanish Civil War begins and lasts for 3 years
1937 – Paints Guernica
1939 – World War II begins
1945 – United States drops atomic bombs on 2 Japanese cities; World War II ends
1947 – Son Claude born to Francoise Gilot; begins making ceramics
1949 – Invents dove as peace symbol; daughter Paloma born to Francoise
1954 – Matisse dies
1957 – Elvis Presley has his first number one hit record with “Heartbreak Hotel”
1961 – Marries Jacqueline; makes corrugated metal sculptures
1966 – One thousand works are shown in Paris for Picasso’s 85 birthday
1969 – Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, becomes first astronaut to walk on the moon
1973 – Dies 8 April, age 91
1974 – Richard M. Nixon resigns as president of the United States
The Boy Wonder
Pablo Picasso Links
The Artistic Genius
First Communion
Science and Charity
Blue Paintings
PInk Paintings
Picasso’s Shocking Paintings (Cubism)
Picasso Sad Times
Dreams World
Guernica
War and Peace
World War II
Pots and Pans
Working To The End
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December 2nd, 2010 at 7:48 am
[...] As for the background, it shows blue… It really makes me think it is the sky! But come to think of it, it can refer to water, especially freshwater. Green water would depict more of sea water. So sometimes, we are not always right when art is concerned. Even young children can be our teacher! [...]