Pablo Picasso Spanish painter and sculptor Biography of

Pablo Picasso Spanish painter and sculptor

Biography of Pablo Picasso Picasso - the inventor of new forms of painting, an innovator of styles and techniques, and one of the most prolific artists in history. Picasso created more than 20,000 jobs. Born in Malaga, October 25, 1881. The genius of Picasso found himself early. Pablo showed early talent for drawing. As early as 7 years old, he learned from his father's painting technique, which first gave him append legs of pigeons in the pictures. But one day, entrusting thirteen Pablo to finish a pretty big still life, he was so struck by her son technique, which, according to legend, he gave up painting. П. Пикассо

At the age of 13 years, Pablo Picasso brilliantly entered the Barcelona Academy of Fine Arts. In preparation for the exam, students usually take a month, a week went by Picasso. He struck a commission for his skill and was admitted to the Academy despite his young age. However, studies in the School of Art lasted a short time, less than a year, and Pablo was captured by all the other pleasures of life in Madrid, as well as studying the works then impressed by artists - Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya and El Greco in particular. Between 1900 and 1902, Picasso made ​​three trips to Paris and finally settled there in 1904. П. Пикассо. Париж

Works by Pablo Picasso In Paris, Pablo Picasso had met with the work of the Impressionists. His life at this time is fraught with many difficulties, and the suicide of his friend Casagemas a deep impression on the young Picasso. Under these circumstances, at the beginning of 1902 he began to work in style, later called the "blue period". In the works of this period pronounced theme of old age and death, is characterized by images of poverty, melancholy and sadness (Picasso thought - "who is sad, he is sincere"), slowed movement of people, they seem to listen to how you ("The Absinthe Drinker," 1901 "Woman with a chignon, "1901," Rendezvous, "1902;" old Beggar with a Boy, "1903;" Tragedy ", 1903). "Absinthe Drinker" In 1901. Pablo Picasso

Girl on the Ball, 1905 In 1904, Picasso settled in Paris, where he finds refuge in the famous Montmartre hostel for poor artists Bato-Lavuar: starts the so-called "pink period" in which sorrow and misery "blue period" has been replaced by images of a living world of theater and circus. The product of the transition period - from the "blue" to "pink" - "Girl on the Ball" (1905, Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). The artist preferred the golden-pink and pink-gray tones, and the characters were wandering comedians, dancers and acrobats, paintings of this period imbued with the spirit of the tragic loneliness of the dispossessed, the romantic life of wandering comedians

"Blue Period" (1901-1904) "Life" (1903) "Breakfast is blind" (1903)

"Rose Period" (1904-1906) "Family Comedians" (1905) "Acrobat and Young Harlequin "(1905)

cubism The "cubic" period Picasso identify several stages. "Cezanne" Cubism represented in the works "cans and bowls" (1908), "Three Women" (1908), "Woman with a Fan" (1909) and others, is characterized by "Cezanne" colors - ocher, greenish, brown, but more blurred, hazy, and the use of simple geometric shapes, from which the picture. "Analytical" Cubism: the subject is divided into smaller parts that are clearly separated from each other, the subject form as it spreads on the canvas. "Portrait of Ambroise Vollard" (1910), "The plant in Horta de San Juan" (1909), "Portrait of Fernande Olivier" (1909), "Portrait of Kanveylera" (1910). "Cans and Bowls" (1908) "The plant in Horta de San Juan "(1909)

At the stage of 'synthetic' cubist work by Picasso make decorative and contrasting character. Paintings depict mostly still lifes with various objects: musical instruments, notes, wine bottles, pipes, cutlery, posters ... Also, for fear of turning into a purely abstract cubist aesthetic exercise, understandable only to a narrow circle, Picasso and Braque used in his works real objects: wallpaper, sand, rope and other works of "synthetic" period: "Still Life with a wicker chair" (1911-1912 ) a bottle of Pernod (table in the cafe) "(1912)," m Violin guitar "(1913). A bottle of Pernod (Table in the Cafe) " (1912)

Despite the rejection by a majority of Cubism, Picasso bought very well. Finally ended a miserable existence and Pablo Fernando in September 1909 moved into a spacious and bright studio on Clichy, 11. In autumn 1911 Picasso parted with Fernanda. His new muse was Eva (Marcel Umber), with whom he lived and created his cube and work in Montparnasse at Avignon. One of the works devoted to Eve - "Nude I love Eva" (1912). Then came the sad years: war, mobilization, and parting with many friends, sudden illness and tragic death of Eve. "Portrait of Fernande Olivier "(1909)

Paintings by Pablo Picasso The Picasso Museum in Malaga (Spanish: Museo Picasso Málaga) - a museum devoted to the work of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in Malaga, where he was born an artist. Buenavista is located in the castle of XVI century. The museum collection includes 150 paintings by Picasso, the artist's family donated it. In 2009, the Picasso Museum in Malaga has teamed up with the house-museum of Picasso in the Plaza de la Merced. A collection of early works by Picasso in Barcelona, ​​the Picasso Museum. The most famous of them: "First Communion" (1896) - a large painting of Picasso's sister, Lola, "Self-Portrait" (1896), "Portrait of a Mother" (1896).

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt brushes sold the day before for $ 135 million. Early watercolor by Pablo Picasso, the painter portrayed himself and his girlfriend naked and lying in each other's arms, was sold to unknown buyer from the UK in the English Duke's auction for 81,000 pounds

Girl on share1905, Museum. Pushkin, Moscow Paul in a suit Arlekina1924, Picasso Museum, Paris Portrait of Ambroise Vallora1910, Pushkin

Avignon girls History of creation "Avignon girls" - the first picture of the cubic period Picasso, painted in 1907. The inspiration for this painting, probably was the picture of Paul Cezanne's "Bathers", as well as Iberian sculpture exhibition, held in Paris in 1906. The original title of the painting - "The philosophical brothel," the final name of "Avignon girl" has given the writer André Salmon, one of the artist. plot In one version, the "story" paintings inspired by the brothel in Barcelona Calle d'Avinon quarter. The canvas depicts five naked women, written in a different manner. Two right-wing figures with faces resembling a mask - the beginning of a new movement in painting, Cubism. The women painted in pink and ocher colors, background colors of blue, shows the influence of the "pink" and "blue" periods of Picasso.

Guernica "Guernica" (Spanish: Guernica) - Pablo Picasso, painted in May 1937 commissioned by the Government of the Republic of the Spanish for the Spanish pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. Theme of the painting, executed in the manner of cubism and in black and white - the bombing of Guernica, which occurred shortly before. "Guernica" is a canvas-mural, painted in oil in a black and white, 3.5 m high and 7.8 m in length. This is a huge canvas was written with incredible speed - just one month.

Boy with a Pipe "Boy with a Pipe" (Fr. Garçon à la pipe) - the picture painted in a dormitory-Bato Lavuar in Montmartre 24-year-old artist Pablo Picasso in 1905, the so-called. Pink during his career. It depicts an unknown boy with a pipe in his left hand and with a crown of roses on his head. Portrait of a long time served as a "nail" the meeting of the American collector John Whitney. With the sale of the collection in 2004, "The Boy with a Pipe" sold at Sotheby's auction for a record price at the time of 104 million dollars, breaking the record for 15 years, disengaged, "Portrait of Dr. Gachet," Van Gogh's brush. As of May 2010 for a higher price at auction was sold only one painting - "Nude, green leaves and bust" by the same author.

Death Pablo Picasso, a brilliant artist of the twentieth century and multimillionaire, died April 8, 1973 in Muzheni in 92 years of age. He was buried near his own castle Vovenarh.