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Pablo Picasso
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) was a Spanish painter and
sculptor. One of the most recognized oil painting artist in 20th
century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges
Braque, of
cubism. It has been
estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 oil painting or
designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations
and 300 sculpture or ceramics.
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. The
son of an academic painter, Jose Ruiz Blanco, he began to draw at
an early age. In 1895, the family moved to Barcelona, and Picasso
studied there at La Lonja, the academy of fine arts. His visit to
Horta de Ebro from 1898 to 1899 and his association with the group
at the café Els Quatre Gats about 1899 were crucial to his early
artistic development. In 1900, Picasso?s first exhibition took
place in Barcelona, and that fall he went to Paris for the first of
several stays during the early years of the century. Picasso
settled in Paris in April 1904, and soon his circle of friends
included Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Gertrude and Leo Stein,
as well as two dealers, Ambroise Vollard and Berthe Weill.
His style developed from the Blue Period (1901?04) to the Rose
Period (1905) to the pivotal work Les Demoiselles d?Avignon (1907),
and the subsequent evolution of Cubism [more] from an Analytic
phase (ca. 1908?11), through its Synthetic phase (beginning in
1912?13). Picasso?s collaboration on ballet and theatrical
productions began in 1916. Soon thereafter, his work was
characterized by neoclassicism and a renewed interest in drawing
and figural representation. In the 1920s, the artist and his wife,
Olga (whom he had married in 1918), continued to live in Paris, to
travel frequently, and to spend their summers at the beach. From
1925 into the 1930s, Picasso was involved to a certain degree with
the Surrealists, and from the fall of 1931 he was especially
interested in making sculpture. In 1932, with large exhibitions at
the Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, and the Kunsthaus Zürich, and
the publication of the first volume of Christian Zervos?s catalogue
raisonné, Picasso?s fame increased markedly.
By 1936, the Spanish Civil War had profoundly affected Picasso, the
expression of which culminated in his painting Guernica (1937,
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid). Picasso's
association with the Communist Party began in 1944. From the late
1940s, he lived in the South of France. Among the enormous number
of Picasso exhibitions that were held during the artist?s lifetime,
those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1939 and the Musée
des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1955 were most significant. In 1961,
the artist married Jacqueline Roque, and they moved to Mougins.
There Picasso continued his prolific work in painting, drawing,
prints, ceramics, and sculpture until his death April 8, 1973.
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