Pablo Picasso: The Greatest Artist of the 20th Century
For the astonishing stylistic width and intellectual depth displayed in his artworks,
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was, without any doubt, one of the greatest, most controversial, and influential visual artist of the 20th century. During the several significant stylistic shifts Picasso went through—most notably the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubist Period, African Period, and Surrealist Period—Picasso explored the emotionally provocative power of different colors, went beyond the boundaries of artistic conventions by creating entirely new forms of expression, and earnestly employed stylistic innovations in his contemporary time to explore the philosophical questions of death, life, marriage, and war.
Born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, the Spanish painter was the son of a Castilian artist and an Andalusian, who encouraged and educated him to visual arts from an early age. Upon creating the first important series of oil paintings in 1895 in conventional styles, Picasso attended the School of Fine Arts from 1895 to 1897 and the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the following two years.
Picasso entered the Blue Period (1901-1905) right after his …show more content…
In the Surrealist Manifesto, Andre Breton defined the cultural movement was the expression of “psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express verbally, by written word, or by any other manner—the actual functioning of thought” and “the omnipotence of dream”. (Breton) Beginning from the 1920s, the works of Picasso started to show Surrealist influences; around 1927, Picasso’s employed the forms that could be fully classified as a surrealist work; in the mid-1930s, Picasso became increasingly associated with Surrealist thinkers, including the poet Paul Eluard.
For the astonishing stylistic width and intellectual depth displayed in his artworks,
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was, without any doubt, one of the greatest, most controversial, and influential visual artist of the 20th century. During the several significant stylistic shifts Picasso went through—most notably the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubist Period, African Period, and Surrealist Period—Picasso explored the emotionally provocative power of different colors, went beyond the boundaries of artistic conventions by creating entirely new forms of expression, and earnestly employed stylistic innovations in his contemporary time to explore the philosophical questions of death, life, marriage, and war.
Born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, the Spanish painter was the son of a Castilian artist and an Andalusian, who encouraged and educated him to visual arts from an early age. Upon creating the first important series of oil paintings in 1895 in conventional styles, Picasso attended the School of Fine Arts from 1895 to 1897 and the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the following two years.
Picasso entered the Blue Period (1901-1905) right after his …show more content…
In the Surrealist Manifesto, Andre Breton defined the cultural movement was the expression of “psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express verbally, by written word, or by any other manner—the actual functioning of thought” and “the omnipotence of dream”. (Breton) Beginning from the 1920s, the works of Picasso started to show Surrealist influences; around 1927, Picasso’s employed the forms that could be fully classified as a surrealist work; in the mid-1930s, Picasso became increasingly associated with Surrealist thinkers, including the poet Paul Eluard.