18 May 2009
Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno
María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.
He was born on the 25th October, 1881 in Malaga in Spain. He was the
first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was
a painter and a professor of art at the School of Crafts and the curator of
a local museum.
He suffocated at birth and was saved by his uncle who blew cigar smoke
into his face and making him cry sp that he can breathe.
Picasso is a famous painter. His father teached him the basics of art when
he was young. He attended an Art Academy in Madrid. He is also famous
for being the co-founder of the Cubist movement and for the wide variety
of styles embodied in his work.
He belongs to the blue and pink periods.
From 1901-1904, it was called Picasso's Blue Period because many of his
paintings in that time were in the shades of blue and blue-green. The subjects
of these paintings were prostitutes and beggars. Some examples of these
paintings were ‘La Vie’, ‘The Blindman’s Meal’ and a portrait called ‘Celestina’.
From 1905-1907, it was called Picasso's Pink Period because many of his
paintings became cheerful when he uses the colours of pink and orange.
From 1909-1912, it was called Picasso's Analytic Cubism Period. This
style of painting was developed along with Georges Braque and was
characterized by the using monochrome brown colors. He took the
objects apart and analyzed them within the medium of his paintings.
From 1912-1919, it was called Picasso's Synthetic Cubism Period which
he began to use collage in his art by adding paper fragments of wallpaper
or newspaper pages and paste them into his work.
The meanings of Blue Period was the period of somberness for Pablo
Picasso as he was sad of his friends' death and used blue and blue-green
colours for most of his paintings during that period.
The meaning of Pink Period signifies the time when the style of Pablo
Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and pink colours instead of the
cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period.
The meaning of Cubism was an avant-garde art movement, pioneered
by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European
paintings and sculptures, and inspired related movements in music and literature.
The first branch of cubism, Analytic Cubism, was both radical and
influential as a short but very significant art movement.
The second branch of cubism, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread
and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.
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