Pablo Picasso Research Paper

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Born in a poor family in southern Spain on October 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. His impressive artistic talent and inexhaustible inspiration made him a legendary figure in the 20th century. As the greatest art genius in the 20th century, Pablo Picasso had done as much as 37,000 artwork, which includes 1885 oil paintings, 7089 sketches, 2000 prints, and 6121 lithographs.
Picasso’s representative works are "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Kahn Weiler like"
"bottle, glass and violin '', “Guernica”, and '' dove of peace." Picasso had four paintings in the list of the top 10 highest auction price paintings. In an opinion poll he had been overwhelmingly
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And during the trainings Picasso showed that he had thoroughly grasped naturalistic conventions at a very young age.
In 1895, Picasso's 7 year old sister Conchita died of diphtheria. And Picasso was traumatized by her death. After some incomplete sessions of art school in Barcelona and
Madrid.

Picasso spent his adolescence associating with the group of Catalan
Modernists who gathered at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona. From there he moved to
Paris, where he quickly found likeminded poets and painters. His work began to attract serious critical attention and praise by the time he was twenty. His first mature work was around 1901, which is classified as his Blue Period. He painted anecdotal scenes of clowns, vagrants, and prostitutes, all in tones of blue. Important early works include his "Self- Portrait" (1901) and "La Vie" (1903). As the time moved forward, Picasso’s painting developed, and he met the right people in Paris. In 1904, he met
Oliver a Bohemia model and they fell in love, and his Rose Period began. His subject
Matter remained much the same compare to his Blue Period, but his tones were warmer, rosier with orange and pink colors, And Olivier appears in many of his Rose
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Picasso's African influenced Period was during 1907 to 1909 and formal ideas developed during this period lead directly into the
Cubist period that follows. During 1909 to 1912 Picasso and Georges Braque developed Cubism. Cubism is one of the most radical restructuring of the way that a work of art constructs its meaning. Cubism is a term that was derived from a reference made to geometric schemes and cubes. Cubism has been known as the first and the most influential of all movements in 20th century art. Before Picasso did any cubism paintings, there were works exhibiting a raw intensity and violence due to his reading of nonwestern art aligned with European primitivism. This contrasting position provided the dynamic for Picasso’s work. In his paintings such as Mother and Child,
Picasso showed the fetishistic and simplifying aspects of primitivism. In his paintings
Picasso used bright hues and subdued grays and earth colors. And he found out that shapes could have meaning and identities by their arrangement. Pablo Picasso died on
8 April 1973 in Mougins, France. And he was buried in the grounds of a château in the village of Vauvenargues in the south of France. But his contribution for art secured

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