Casey Sharkey

Art 1010
10/12/15

Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. Picasso was a

painter, sculptor, printmaker, and worked with ceramics. He was considered
a radical of his work and was very devoted. He even said that his art was
the reason he really lived for 80 of his 91 years, it kept him going.
His father was a painter and an art teacher. His parents were very
supportive of him since he was young. Although Picasso was not a good
student, at the age of thirteen, his drawing abilities surpassed his fathers
ability greatly. At the age of fourteen, he moved with his parents to
Barcelona, where he applied to the citys school of fine arts, and was
shockingly accepted at his young age. Although it was crazy that he got
accepted to the school, it was too prestigious for him, and he started
skipping classes and wandering the city. He started hanging out with crowd
of artists in the city and they were considered anarchists and radicals. They
ended up being called The Four Cats. Picasso was so inspired by spending
time with other artists who broke away from the classical methods of art and
decided he wanted to be an inspiration to others, little did he know then, that

idea would become reality. He experimented a lot and was thought of as an

innovator of art.
Picasso went through a lot of stages throughout his career. One of his
stages was the Blue Period. He had lost a close friend and was very
depressed. It was called the Blue Period because most of his paintings
were dark colors, mostly blue, and dark green, putting his depression into his
work. Another stage was the Rose Stage. This was the stage where he
overcame his battle with depression, and fell in love with a model named
Fernande Oliver. He used a lot of reds and warmer colors to show his love.
Although Picasso was a passionate man and fell in love with this woman, he
was known as a womanizer and was involved in a lot of activities with
prostitutes, girlfriends, and mistresses, and was married twice, but both
failed. Picasso put a lot of emotions into his work, but there is a specific
piece of art that changed the history of art. Les Demoiselles dAvignon is a
painting that some say is chilling. Five nude prostitutes are painted very
abstractly and distorted features. It is considered to have influenced art for
the 20th century and was the Break into Cubism I agree with the word
chilling to describe this painting because he almost made these women
out to be non-human. After knowing Picasso was a womanizer, it made me
think about how these women must have just been objects to him, and it
made me feel kind of weird. The dark colors to enhance the women was the
focal point in all the distorted bodies.

Picasso remained an inspiration to art throughout his later years in life,

and is still considered a legacy. He is remembered for reinventing his own
art throughout the years and being an incredible visionary which has lead
the 20th century to diversity through art. People say he had the abilities of
five or six different artists. When he was told this replied: "Different themes
inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either
evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to
express and the way in which one wants to express it."