To this day, there are still people who dismiss Picasso as a hack "who couldn't draw". art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein were among the few people who believed in his work.ĭetail from Picasso's comic strip about his arrival in Paris in 1901, accompanied by Jaume Andreu Bonsons (in the collection of the Musée Picasso-Paris). Fellow painters Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, as well as French poet Max Jacob and the U.S. Like many struggling artists, he was very poor, but he enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle. In 1900, he first travelled to the cultural capital of the world, Paris, where he eventually settled by the 1920s. The boy studied at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, but left after only a few weeks. As fate would have it, she died, whereupon he devoted his entire existence to art.
He swore that if she survived he would give up painting forever. In 1895 Picasso's youngest sister Conchita fell ill with diphteria. From a young age, Picasso was preoccupied with drawing. His father was an art professor who painted birds from nature. The name Picasso actually belonged to his mother. He was born in 1881 in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain as Pablo Ruiz. His characters often have a grotesque, cartoony look and some of his artworks, like 'Sueño y Mentira de Franco' (The Dream and Lie of Franco', 1937) and 'Tauro' ('Bull', 1945-1946) are sequential illustrated narratives, picture stories, or, to quit beating around the bush: comics. Stylistically, Picasso was comparable to a cartoonist. His bold and radical works paved the way for countless modern painters and sculptors, but likewise influenced numerous cartoonists and comic artists. His Cubist art is instantly recognizable, but Picasso constantly changed styles, techniques and topics throughout his long life. He broke with thousand years of naturalistic painting and sculpting by making heavily distorted images, some still figurative, others abstract. Even to people who know little about art he is a household name.
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, widely regarded as the most important, famous and influential 20th-century artist.
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