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=Pablo Picasso =



//“ ////Unlike in music, there are no child prodigies in painting. What people regard as premature genius is the genius of childhood. It gradually disappears as they get older. It is possible for such a child to become a real painter one day, perhaps even a great painter. But he would have to start right from the beginning. So far as I am concerned, I did not have that genius. My first drawings could never have been shown at an exhibition of children’s drawings. I lacked the clumsiness of a child, his naivety. I made academic drawings at the age of seven, the minute precision of which frightened me.” -- Picasso.//

Pablo Picasso(1881-1973) was born in Malaga, Spain. His father was a drawing teacher and saw that Picasso was very talented. At age 14 Picasso took the entrance exam for the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and passed. One of many legends about Picasso's life was that his father had given him all of his brushes and palette and vowed to paint never again because he believed his son was so talented. During Picasso's lifetime he went through different periods of painting styles. The Blue Period lasted from about 1900-1904. During his blue period, Picasso painted with primarily cold blues tinged with green, often depicting prostitutes or beggars. Ma = = ny categorized his painting style during these years as masterly, which even convinced those who rejected his later modern style.

Picasso's Rose Period lasted from about 1905-1906. During this time Picasso's style moved away from the Blue Period to a friendly pink tone where the subjects were from the world of the circus.

After traveling to Paris several times Picasso decided to permanently move to the "capital of arts" in 1904. While in Paris he met other famous artists like Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and George Braques. Picasso admired Henri Matisse, the master of French //Fauvism,// and he eventually developed a life-long friendship with him.

Picasso, along with George Braque and Juan Gris, developed the Cubist style. "In Cubism, subjects are reduced to basic geometrical shapes. In a later version of Cubism, called //synthetic cubism//, several views of an object or a person are shown simultaneously from a different perspective in one picture."(Dieter Wanczura, 2009)

In 1937 Picasso created his landmark painting //Guernica//, which was a protest against the barbaric air raid against a Basque village during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso's //Guernica// is a 349 cm × 776 cm mural on canvas in black, white and grey. It was created for the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World's Fair. Picasso used symbolic forms in //Guernica//, which he repeated in several of his following works, such as a dying horse or a weeping woman.

Someme examples of Picasso's diefferent peiods are below.

Blue Period & Rose Period:
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My Interperation of Picaso's Cubism


Sorces: Wanczura, Dieter, [], October = = 2009, 02/22/10.