Pablo Picasso – His Life and His Art
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, painter, sculptor, and printmaker, was born in
Malaga Spain on October 25, 1881 and died on April 8, 1973.Today he is
considered to be one of the most influential and successful artists in
history. Picasso contributed many things to 19th century and modern
day art and his name is familiar to all those involved in the many
different fields of art. Throughout the seven decades that Picasso
produced artwork he used many different types of media. In each piece
of art he produced he searched for new possibilities, invented images
in them, and reflected events that were occurring in his world through
his artwork. Picasso had many artistic influences in his life,
including Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and the well-known School of Fine
Arts in Paris. Picasso contributed to artistic individuality when he
started painting pictures in just one basic colour or one certain
colour grouping. He achieved this when he did the paintings of the
blue period and rose period and other artists later followed Picasso’s
example. Picasso contributed to artistic creativity by exploring and
creating new art forms during his career such as Cubism-which was not
limited to painting. This new style of cubism eventually led to the
modern abstract art that is visible to us in the artwork of the modern
day world.
Pablo Picasso showed his interest in art as a young boy. He showed
great talent at a very young age and liked to paint pictures of the
city life around him. This talent of Picasso’s did not go unnoticed
and at age 15 he entered into the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1896
where his father was a professor (Grolier). While there Picasso
experimented with many of the different avant-garde styles happening
at that time which is seen throughout his career as an artist. Many
other artists, such as Cezanne and Toulouse-Lautrec, influenced
Picasso. Paul Cezanne was known both for his technique of putting down
on canvas exactly what his eye saw in nature and for the qualities of
pictorial form that he achieved through a unique treatment of space,
mass, and colour and inspired Picasso to express his own impression of
current events through his artwork. Another influence was Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec who was known for being a leading postimpressionist
artist whose paintings, lithography, and posters contributed much to
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planes, and he made the guitar’s sound hole a projecting cylinder
(World book). Picasso’s creation of cubism led to many of the abstract
art styles utilized in the modern day world.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist extraordinaire, had many artistic
influences in his life, including Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and the
infamous School of Fine Arts in Paris. Picasso contributed to artistic
individuality by not following the works of other artists and
encouraged other artists to explore art through the use of just one
basic colour or one certain colour grouping. He made this contribution
when he created the paintings of the Blue Period and Rose Period.
Picasso also contributed to artistic creativity when he assisted in
creating a new style known as cubism, which he explored through
different mediums including sculptures and collages in his paintings.
Cubism eventually led to the creation of abstract art that is visible
today in modern day art. So, as you can see, Picasso was definitely
one of the most influential and successful artists in the history of
art and those who know his work and his contributions will most likely
never forget his name and his contribution to the world of art.
