Biography of the Picasso artist

Childhood and the beginning of the creative path of Pablo Picasso and sister Lola. Photo: Museepicassoparis. Hose Ruis's father was an artist, but work did not bring him glory, so he worked as a caretaker in the Museum of Fine Arts. Mother Maria Picasso Puppies grew into the family of owners of grape plantations, but since childhood she knew the need, because the head of the family left his family and left for America.

Then it was a tradition to indicate the names of revered ancestors and Catholic saints. From the age of 7, Pablo already helped his father in painting and made great success. From the very beginning, his creative path was confident: the art school, the La-Lanha school, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. However, he constantly skipped classes, believing that he already knows how to draw so well.

Pablo Picasso at the age of years. Photo: MuseupicassSobcn. The death of Carles Casagemas. Photo: Picassolive. At that time, an American student named Carles Casagemas, with whom Pablo happens many times in Paris, became his close friend. Friends devote the first excursions to the study of the works of Delacrois, Toulouse Lotrek, Van Gogh, Gauguin, as well as ancient Phoenician and Egyptian frescoes, Japanese engravings.

For the first time, Pablo begins to sign his paintings with a pseudonym Picasso. In M, Carles committed suicide because of unhappy love. In memory of this terrible event, Pablo creates a series of paintings that belong to the first period called “Blue”. The next three years, a young artist, deeply shocked and immersed in depression, writes in cold shades. Mostly depicts stories about poverty, loneliness, despair.

The peak of the work of that time is the picture "Life". Fortunately, the “blue period” in the work of Pablo Picasso will not be eternal, and in the middle of the year it will be replaced by “pink”. The pink period of Pablo Picasso “In the Kabar of Lapin Agil” in August Picasso meets Fernanda Olivier, this was a pseudonym, in fact, the girl called Amelie Lang, and she becomes the first real love experience in the life of Pablo.

Sudden passion and romantic mood entered the paintings, giving them new shades. The main color on its canvases was a pronounced pearl pink, the plots are filled with tenderness and touching. Pablo Picasso and Fernanda Olivier. Now the artist perceives people around not through a prism of despondency, but through new "pink" glasses. And even if the life of his characters is imperfect, the Creator accepts his heroes as they are.

It is interesting that Picasso often portrayed himself in the image of Harlequin as in the picture “In the Kabar of Lapin Agil”, and his friends as other characters. One of the main masterpieces is the painting "Girl on the Ball." On her, an elegant young girl is balancing on a ball with a smile on her face. A muscular athlete sits next to her on a massive cube. Buildability lies on the verge of masculinity and tenderness, seriousness and lightness.

However, the most important idea is the unity of two entities: girls and athlete. At any moment, the girl on the ball can break the balance and fall, but the athlete will definitely support it. Other periods of Picasso for the first time get acquainted with archaic African art. He likes the simplicity and monumentality of wooden and stone idols. One of the works, which theoretically influenced the development of all cubism, was the "Avignon girls." It is attributed to the "African period." The artist was worried about the ways to convey reality, and cubism became an ideal tool for him.

Although the works of Pablo were not evaluated by critics, they gained recognition of the public. The most famous paintings: “Young lady” year, “naked” year, “I love Eve” year, “still life with a magazine” year. Pablo Picasso "Avignonian girls" then was the "classic period." In it, the life of Picasso changed a lot after acquaintance and marriage with Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova.

The birth of a son and family life brought him new impressions and plots. The figures in his paintings became more traditional and clear, and the colors are brighter. The greatest result of the intellectual efforts of Picasso was the period of surrealism, where objects of fine art were not expressed in accordance with the perception of the artist, but in harmony with his thoughts. Pablo Picasso “bathing” “Military and post -war period” greatly influenced the evolution of Picasso's work.

At that time they were written: “Termnika”, G. all the life of Pablo was attached to the art of drawing - he continued to create until the very end. The last 15 years of his work is a kind of symbiosis, a rethinking of the past work. The most famous paintings of the last years of his life - “Kiss”, G. Velazquez ”, G. Personal life Pablo Pablo Pablo Pablo Pacabo“ Detail ”Lovely with representatives of the fair sex played the main role in Pablo Picasso's personal life.

Scientists-artists emphasize the significance of seven women who had a huge impact on the life and art of a brilliant artist. Being low - centimeters, the painters possessed strong male energy and amazing charm.It was impossible to resist the irresistible magnetism, colored by explosive Spanish temperament and genius. Pablo Picasso in the year. She was the muse of the young author for almost ten years: she posed naked without protests and did not mind when she had to sit in the apartment for two months, since she had no shoes, and Picasso did not have money to buy them.

However, this could not continue forever, and in the end they parted peacefully. Marseille Umbert.

She, like all the subsequent lovers of the great and successful Pablo Picasso, could not imagine that the generous lover had recently barely made ends meet. In the last decade, he has already solidly rooted, and his paintings were successfully bought. Marseille was fragile, quiet and touching, the exact opposite of Fernanda. In portraits, the artist often portrayed Eve as a symbol of sophistication, ease and lightness.

Pablo also wrote it in the image of musical instruments: violins or guitars. Marseille was a bright star that flashed in a Picasso life in the sky for a moment and quickly went out. She died of tuberculosis. Being in a creative decline, Picasso establishes a close friendship with Jean Coctele, a writer and artist who calls for him to create decorations for the “Parade” ballet for the Diaghilev troupe.

This task brings new energy to the master, and he meets the young ballerina Olga Khokhlova, the daughter of a Russian colonel. Soon, a summer girl leaves the scene for the sake of marriage, and in the year they become husband and wife. Picasso himself later finds it difficult to answer the question of what prompted him to marry. After the wedding, Pablo took Olga to his parents to Spain, and then arranged her in a luxurious apartment in Paris.

He was so fascinated by Khokhlova that he promised himself to part with a bohemian life, firmly believing that Olga is a heavenly gift for him. Pablo Picasso. The portrait of Olga Khokhlova, but it turned out not the way he conceived. The Russian ballerina tried to connect the work of Picasso with the financial well -being of the family, to turn it into an expensive salon artist and an ideal family man.

Khokhlova absolutely did not recognize cubism, so he was forced to temporarily move away from this style. Even at the birth of his son Paolo in the year, marital relations were no longer recovering, despite the fact that paternity covered Picasso. But then complete alienation came. Such a limited life was simply bored with a genius, and Pablo began to take revenge on Olga. He portrayed his wife only in the form of an evil old woman with long sharp teeth, and then created a whole series of portraits, where she was depicted as a monstrous woman with skinny breasts and huge genitals.

Picasso had a mistress, and having learned about it, Olga decided to file for divorce, but they remained his wife and husband until the end of her days. She constantly suffered from depression and died in the year from cancer. Maria Teresa Walter with the daughter of Picasso Maya. Love for a young girl left a deep mark not only in creativity, but also in his fate. Leading art historians define this period as the top of his artistic skill.

However, when Maria Teresa gave birth to a daughter, his feelings for her quickly cooled down, and the artist found a new passion. Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso in the company. Like her lover, she showed an indomitable character, destroying the relationship with Pablo with her scandals and jealousy. As a result, he began to increasingly visit Maria Teresa and their daughter.

The end of this story was very tragic for both women. Very poorly, surviving a break with Pablo, the Dora hit the psychiatric hospital. Leaving there, she began to get involved in mysticism and astrology, lived in extreme poverty and loneliness. And Maria Teresa, constantly in a state of waiting and depression, committed suicide. Pablo Picasso and Francoise lived with his son Claude.

He was 62 years old, and she - all Francoise lived not only his civil wife, but also the most talented student. She learned a lot from the master and developed a unique style, which brought her fame as an artist. Their common children - the son of Claude and the daughter of Palom, who inherited the surname Picasso, after his death became the owners of a significant part of a huge state.