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Pablo Picasso Overview

Pablo Picasso was a well-known artist in the first half of the 20th Century. He was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain, and was known as Pablo Ruiz or Pablo Ruiz Picasso before 1901. The famous Spanish expatriate painter is also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, and creator of Cubism. Picasso saw himself above all as a painter, yet he is also famous for printmaking and ceramics. 

Here, in this blog, we have provided almost everything that you must know about Pablo Picasso. We will also discuss some of its famous paintings and quotes in this article. So, keep reading!

Pablo Picasso Early Life

Pablo Picasso was the son of a drawing professor, José Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso López. Picasso built his interest in drawing himself in his early childhood days of around 10 years old age. At that time, he became his father’s pupil in A Coruña, where the family moved in 1891. From that point, he always experiments with everything that he has learned and this develops him the ability to surpass his father’s abilities. In A Coruña his father shifted his own ambitions to his son, helping him at every stage of life. 

Later, the family moved to Barcelona in the autumn of 1895. Then, Pablo joined the local art academy (La Llotja), from where his father had completed his last post as a professor of drawing. The family started hoping that their son would achieve success as an academic painter. Everything was going good, but suddenly Picasso fell ill in the spring of 1898 and was then sent to the Catalan village of Horta de Ebro. There he lived for many years in the company of his Barcelona friend Manuel Pallarès. 

In 1895, seven-year-old sister of Pablo died of diphtheria and this bring him in trauma. After her death, Pablo’s family moved to Barcelona, where Ruiz joined a School of Fine Arts. Picasso thrived in the city as his true home. His father persuaded the officials at the academy to allow his son to appear in the entrance exam for the advanced class. This whole process usually takes more than a month for students, but Picasso completed it in a week. By the time he was 13, the jury admitted him. As a student, Picasso lacked discipline but made friends that might help him in the later stages of life. 

Later Picasso’s father and uncle decided to send him to the country’s foremost art school. He was then admitted to Madrid’s Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando at age 16. This was the first time when Picasso set off on his own. After a few days of enrollment, he stopped attending classes and even starts avoiding formal instructions. The Prado housed paintings by several popular painters, including Francisco Goya, Diego Velázquez, and Francisco Zurbarán. 

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Pablo Picasso Most Famous Paintings

Picasso was a prolific artist. He not only creates a large volume of work in other media but also made around 1900 paintings in his career. Many of his famous paintings are the most expensive and sold but his most popular works are generally kept in museums. In this section of the blog, we have provided a few of famous paintings including his Cubist masterpieces and works from his Blue Period.

FAMILY OF SALTIMBANQUES

The Rose Period basically describes Pablo Picasso’s artworks from 1904 to 1906. Following the grim Blue Period and influenced by pre-Roman Iberian sculpture, the paintings of Picasso’s Rose Period are colourful and optimistic in mood. This painting portrays six circus performers in a landscape form. Basically, the Italian word “saltimbanco” is used to refer to street performers. Critics suggested that the famous painting of Pablo is his group portrait along with his circle, symbolized as poor, independent and isolated. 

Pablo Picasso famous Paintings

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MA JOLIE

Pablo Picasso revolutionized European painting and sculpture by reducing the forms into basic geometric parts. This painting is purely based on the Analytic Cubist style and depicts Marcelle Humbert, who was Picasso’s mistress. Ma Jolie signifies the nickname for Marcelle. This is one of most famous paintings and the refrain of a popular song performed at a Parisian music hall which Picasso often visited. 

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GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR

This painting of Pablo Picasso portrays Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress and model Pablo Picasso. Girl before a Mirror portrays two sides of a girl. She is beautiful and dressed up with make-up on the left side and her face is darkened on the right side. Even her intensely feminine body is twisted and contorted from the side opposite the mirror. The painting is later renowned for its varied interpretations and even some critics consider it a representation of Walter’s day-self and her night-self. 

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GUERNICA

Guernica is a town in northern Spain, which was bombed by Nazi German and Fascist Italian during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica was held on 26th April 1937. Picasso created this painting in response to the bombing of Guernica. In his creation, he displayed numerous interpretations of Guernica. On the left side, a wide-eyed bull can be seen standing above a woman grieving over a dead child in her arms. The centre displays a horse falling in agony as if struck by a weapon. On the right of the painting, you can see an awe-struck woman staggering toward the centre. This painting comes under Picasso most famous paintings and is considered one of the most brilliant artworks ever created.

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Picasso Famous Quotes

Several Quotes from Pablo Picasso became inspirational for the youth of even that period and today, as well. Some popular Picasso Quotes are:

Pablo Picasso Famous Quotes

• Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist  – Pablo Picasso
• It takes a long time to become young  – Pablo Picasso
• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal – Pablo Picasso
• Everything you can imagine is real  – Pablo Picasso
• I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents  – Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Famous Quotes

• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.  – Pablo Picasso
• I do not seek. I find  – Pablo Picasso
• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something  – Pablo Picasso
• Love is the greatest refreshment in life  – Pablo Picasso
• I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it  – Pablo Picasso

Wrapping Up:

Pablo Picasso was not only a world-famous Spanish painter but also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theater designer. His influence was profound and far-reaching and his life was influential in its own right. Though his influence became gradually weaker in the 1960s his life story continue to fuel interest in his work. 

He was a famously charismatic personality and we must learn the values that he depicted in his life.

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