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Pablo Picasso

Introduction

Pablo Picasso was born in October, 25 1881 in Spain. He is very well known painting, sculpturing, printmaking and a stage designer who spent most of his adulthood in France and is also one of the most influential and greatest artists known in the 20th century. Other than this, he is also very famous for his invention of the constructed sculpture, a co founder of the Cubist movement, the co inventor of Collage and helped explore and develop a wide variety of styles which later on were used by the artists in their work and gained popularity. Among Pablo's most famous works are the Guernica which he made in 1937 which was a portrayal of the bombing by the Germans in Guernica during the era of the Spanish civil war and the proto-cubist which he made in 1907 (Picasso and Lieberman, 1954).

Picasso was a born Christian and was given birth in the city of Malaga in Spain. He belonged to a middle class family and his father was also a very well known painter in his time who specialized in the naturalized portraying of Birds and games and for most of his life used to teach at a school as a professor and also was a curator for a local museum. Some say Picasso got most of his influence from his father. From a very young age Picasso showed the skills and passion for drawing and painting. At the age of seven he received his formal training of oil painting and figure drawing from his father. His father who was a traditional academic artist believed that the being a master in this discipline requires skills of disciplined copying and the drawing of the human body from live models and plaster casts and in no time did his son became preoccupied with the art of painting (Picasso and Lieberman, 1954).

For most of his life, Picasso's influence was far reaching and profound. He worked in pioneering of the Cubism which established a set of illustrative problems, approaches and devices which remained very well recognized and important even in the late 1950s and form his classical works which he did in the 1920s to the work he produced in the Paris in the 1940s, at each stage of his career, his example was important (Picasso and Feld, 1966).

When Pablo was in his twenties he moved to Paris and used to live with a journalist and a poet, Max Jacob. During this time he started gaining interest in the French culture and also began painting in a very Persian style. Later on he had established and grown close to many visionaries of that time in which include many famous writers and well known artists. This whole group of visionaries was very political in nature and which helped and influenced Picasso's views about the world and life itself. He hailed himself as a pacifist and participated and lived through many wars which included both the world wars and also the ...