How Pablo Picasso Lived-passionate Painter Of The 20th Century | Artswel

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth- Pablo Picasso

Well, it must have been a lie to this man and probably he was in search of truth in his every painting until he ended piling up a lot to his collections. Bienvenidos (Spanish: Welcome) to the cosmos of Picasso, the painter, sculptor, ceramist, theatre designer, and a print maker.

Damn! Yes that is true. His naming process was a different level altogether. He hailed from a god fearing family and he was named as a tribute to different saints. His 23 word full name reads Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

Uff !that is a quite long name, it was later cut short by himself to Pablo Picasso, which has his mother’s maiden name. Thank god, his mother’s name was Maria Ruiz Picasso.

Baby Pablo’s first understandable word was piz, a shorter version of Spanish word ‘Lapis’ that meant pencil. It was the genes that were talking. Picasso Pablo was born in Spain and his father Don Jose Ruiz Blasco was a well known painter and professor of art. Picasso obtained official training from his father at the age of 7 and when he was 13, his father quit painting as his son possessed greater talent than him.

Picasso evolved as a prolific painter from the age as early as 9 when he created his first painting Le picador, an art of Spanish bull rider. Use of colour was one of his forte and he used wood or clay for his art. At the age of 15 his first major painting an academic work, La premiere Communion. From then onwards he experimented with his interest and subjects making him versatile.

The result of his experimentation was his various art periods and the invention of cubism, neoclassicism. and abstraction. He also made many drawing from postcards and photographs. To document the date of the art he always used to have the date on his every painting.

Ha ha…Definitely not the one that you are thinking of. Pablo used to resonate his mood into paintings and his paintings had a theme and a specific colour used to decorate it. Let’s look at his popular and well known periods.

The Blue Period- the Phase of desolation, darkness and distress. — (1901–1904)

A creator looks for an inspiration; sometimes a real time incident can make a huge impact. One such incident was the loss of a friend and Pablo couldn’t take it. So all his painting during those 4 years had the theme of poverty, loneliness and despair. During this period he used blue colour predominantly in all of his painting and it is also known as the Somber Period.

But the master says, he was not affected by his friend’s death nor he felt lonely. He used blue because he had that colour a plenty with him.

The Rose Period- the phase featuring acrobats and harlequins (1904–1906)

His theme now was the carnival performers, harlequins and clowns and the colours used were orange and pink. He used himself as the face of harlequin and used red colour to depict the emotion and spirit of circus performers. This change happened after he moved to Paris in 1905 where he was greatly influenced by bohemian artist and other art collectors.

The Cubism Period-the phase of analytic and synthetic cubism (1907–1925)

Cubism is a revolutionary art form pioneered by Picasso which left behind the figurative portrayals. The subject here is shown in fragments and deconstructed in such a way it can be viewed from multiple angles. His first successful and popular art of cube was Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

Analytic Cubism — is the first phase of the cubism period and lasted for 4 years from 1908–1912. Here the neutral tones got combined with fragmented subjects spread freely. This disruptive or broken form usually overlapped on one another giving it a multiple perspective vision.

Synthetic Cubism- the second phase of the cubism existed for 2 years from 1912–1914 was the most of the compositions were simplified and the paintings had brightened colour palettes. These were later given names as still life art or the college art.

The other periods of Picasso were Neo Classicism (1920–1930) and Surrealism (1926 onwards)

The harmony Period — The saying you mature with age and so did Picasso. In 1930s he preferred a harmonious colour. He targeted the biomorphic sensuality by drawing women with dropping head

The Emotion Period — France had to face Spanish Civil War in 1930’s and this disturbed the painter completely. His outbreak was emotional pictures a pinch of it could be seen in Dream and Lie of Franco and this time his theme of colour was grey.

He had this unusual but unique liking for striped shirts. 1n 1858 this shirt introduced by Picasso went on to become the official uniform of French seamen based in Britney. It had 21 horizontal lines that represented napoleon Bonaparte’s military victory. These shirts had their official entry into main stream fashion from the year 1917 and still remain a trend to date.

What’s special with this? While none of the famous artists had their paintings showcased while they were alive. Picasso at the age of 90 had this privilege where his famous paintings were showcased in the museum which remains as the true testimony of his talent.

People accused and even questioned this genius when Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa went missing. One of the workers of the Louvre was found to be the culprit later. However, as an irony, many of his artworks close to 1000 of them are missing without a paper trail

Picasso Paintings were in demand and most of his paintings were auctioned and sold for a good value of money. It is believed that he had a net worth of 500 million dollars at his death.

Woo! That is a whopping amount. Here are the 7 most expensive paintings of Picasso.

Femmes D’Alger (version o) sold for $179.4M dollars

Le Reve-$15 5 million dollars (2013)

Garcon a la pipe $104 million

Green Leaves and Bust ($116.9 million)

Dora Maar Au Chat ($113.1 million)

Les Noces de Pierrette ($95.3 million)

Yo,Picasso ( $92.5 million)

I am always doing the things I can’t do, because that’s how I get to do them- Picasso

Ending with this quote, if you have to be great at something, don’t ever give up!

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