Picasso artist biography

During his long and fruitful life, he created several tens of thousands of works, changed his citizenship, tried himself in various styles, created a new direction of painting and contributed to the approval of humanistic ideals. The beginning of the path was born a future painter in the year in the Spanish port town of Malaga. They say that the midwife considered him dead: the child was so weak that he did not show signs of life.

It is not known how the fate of a genius of a global scale was formed if his uncle with a cigar had not approached him. Feeling the smell of tobacco, the child cried. According to the local tradition, in the name all the patrons of the clan and relatives were mentioned. The father of the painter was a teacher of fine art specializing in still lifes and landscapes. Therefore, from a young age, the boy was introduced to the beautiful.

It is said that his first word was “Piz” abbreviated from “Lapiz”-a pencil in Spanish. The talent manifested itself when he was 7 years old, and at 13 years old the boy surpassed his father in oil painting. You can evaluate achievements for work as “first participle” and “portrait of the mother”. Life as a creative search in childhood Picasso told fairy tales using recently experienced emotions.

Later, the painter often used this manner in creativity, filling the paintings with living feelings and mental impulses. Emotionality and the desire to liberate real experiences influenced fate: he was in constant search, did not linger in one place for a long time, fell in love with new women and was extremely honest in relations with the world. He was interested in not only European painting, but also Japanese engraving, Gothic sculpture, the art of the peoples of the Middle East.

The creative path of the painter can be divided into several periods in which the vector of the development of creativity has radically changed. In the Blue period, which lasted about 3 years, the tragic events of the suicide of a friend Carlos Kasemagas and the passion for impressionism introduced Pablo into a state of prolonged melancholy. He painted his paintings in cold blue and gray-blue colors.

After moving to Paris, the “pink period” begins: despondency leaves, and the paintings gain cheerful colors. On the canvases there are images of actors, clowns, prostitutes performed in ocher and pink tones. In the year, the master set for himself a kind of record, rewriting the portrait of Gertrude Stein about 80 times! Remaining a dissatisfied result of the work, the painter decided to portray not specific people, but their “essence”.

In search of a source of inspiration, Pablo begins to study African ritual masks and sculptures. The sensuality and simplicity of forms, in the understanding of the master, gave art to magical charming. So cubism appeared, shocked the tradition of fine art to the foundation. But the searches did not end there either: after 9 years of bold experimentation in the year, the master renews his style, moving away from the results of past experiments.

Clear forms, bright tones and bright faces of people fill the paintings during the period of “neoclassicism”. A new turn in creativity came in the year. Under the influence of the ideas of surrealism, Picasso paints paintings with frightening images from the world of hallucinations. Convulsions, hysteria and deformation impregnate the atmosphere of canvases. In parallel, he establishes relations with young Maria Teresa Walter, who inspired the master to spelling several paintings and portraits.

Interest in the theme of surrealism was lost after parting with her mistress Maria and wife Olga in the year. The European citizen, despite the Spanish origin, the artist is known for the Italian surname of the Picasso mother.

Perhaps he wanted to avoid coincidences with the name of Father Jose Ruis, or it could be sought to emphasize Italian origin. After graduating from his studies in Madrid, he moved to France, where recognition came to him, and where the master spent most of his life. Despite this, Pablo did not lose his connections with his homeland and actively took part in her political life.

During the Civil War in Spain, G., after the victory of the dictator, the painter had to change citizenship. True, he did not succeed immediately. The French government, taking into account the scandalous nature and political views of Pablo, did not want to give citizenship in the conditions of the impending catastrophe of the Second World War. Later, the request was satisfied, so today the artist and the Spaniards and the French consider their own.

Not only the painter Picasso became famous as an artist, but he reached heights in other forms of art. It became known about his fascination with sculpture only in the year when a number of works were presented at exhibitions in London, New York and Paris. Such works as the “woman’s head” Fernanda, “glass of absinthe”, “pregnant woman”, “Babuin with the baby” and “head” were included in the list of the most famous sculptures.

Today there are works with confirmed authorship. Over the next year, about work was created. Perhaps interest in ceramics was caused by the hobby of Mediterranean civilization.The works clearly see the motives of the Crito-Miken culture, carpet style, Arab “curls”, Moorish geometry and Spanish corrida. Artistic images are expressed not only by color and pattern, but also by form.

Picasso's dramatic works and poems are also known. It was not possible to achieve noticeable successes in this field, but they are a living evidence of the versatility of talent. The world and war in the life of Picasso politics in the worldview of the painter occupied an important place. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, among his acquaintances, representatives of the left movements could be seen.

Later, the master took part in the political life of Spain and France, opposing Nazism, dictatorship and militarism. His brush belongs to the famous painting "Hernik", written in the year by order of the Spanish government. The reason for its creation was the bombardment of Herniki, the city of the Basque Country in the north of Spain. Contemporaries claim that the news of the deaths of thousands of people was a real blow to the master.

Work on the black and white canvas in the manner of cubism lasted a whole month. Picasso saw the horrors of war in all their ugliness: he did not leave Paris even during his occupation. The destruction caused by World War II enhanced the rejection of violence. It is symbolic that it was Picasso who instructed to create the famous emblem for the World Congress of supporters of the world.

She was the image of the “pigeon of the world”, which later “circled the whole world”. Work on the emblem also became the opportunity to recall childhood: his father often gave his son the opportunity to finish the paws of pigeons. As a model for the first version of the emblem, the artist used birds with feathers on his paws from the aviary of his friend Henri Matisse.

Later, the image has undergone several changes until the symbol familiar to the world familiar to the world. Recognition and wealth Glory came to the artist at a young age. At first, an unconventional manner met criticism, and some bold experiments even friends considered a mockery. For example, Henri Matisse became furious when he saw the painting “Avignonian girls” G.

But almost every undertaking passed the test of time, confirming the genius of the author. Picasso became popular and his work was bought for a lot of money. Already at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, he forever managed to break out of poverty and become one of the richest artists of his time. He left his heirs only real estate in the amount of about one and a half billion dollars.

The idea of ​​the value of the paintings give us the results of several auction bidding: G. Having received recognition and wealth, in the last years of his life, Picasso turned to the work of artists of the past, trying to look at himself in a new way, his work and art as a whole. It was a period of return to the origins, rethinking the life path. The artist left our world at the age of 91 at his Villa Notre Dam de-de-Wi in France.

His legacy is about work in various forms, styles and genres of art. You can get acquainted with creativity at the Picasso Museum in Malaga. In the artist’s homeland, there is also a famous branch of the Pompido Center, the roof of which is decorated with a cube of colored glass. According to the architect, he should remind us of cubism and its influence on the history of contemporary art.

Art critic Kyivgallery.