Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso 25/10/1881

 

A painter and sculptor, he is considered one of the most prominent 20th century painters. He is known for his outstanding artistic work, which is characterized by high professionalism and high artistic sense. He is also the founder of the Cubism art movement. Belongs to an artistic family. His father is the painter José Ruiz y Blasco, who was a painting teacher at a Spanish school and was secretary of the local museum, and his mother, María Picasso y López. Pablo had liked painting since he was young and his mother once mentioned that Pablo's first word was "pencil". After the age of seven, his father taught him the basics of painting and oil painting, and since then the painting has dominated his thinking and times until he was busy studying for painting.

Picasso went to Paris in 1911 as the capital of art in Europe, where he met French journalist Max Jacob, who later became his close friend, helped him learn French and French literature. Picasso's life was characterized by poverty and despair. Burned his artwork until the room where he was living was warmed up.

His artworks and style

Picasso's early artistic career was mixed with anarchism and modern art, followed by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch work. Picasso was deeply influenced by his works of art during that period. His works initially depicted social and realistic life like the painting of Nana the Picasso Museum is now in Barcelona.

 Picasso's paintings began to take on a new artistic expression, a cubist expression. The most famous paintings of Picasso's art were "Les Femmes d'Alger" and ” Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and since then The Cubism movement belonged to the artist Picasso, who became associated with his name.

His political views

Picasso was an anti-war fighter, but he showed no bias to anyone. He was against fascism. In 1944, he joined the French Communist Party. In 1950 he won the Stalin Peace Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. The Korean War The painting of the Korean Massacre was drawn to express the massacres that took place then.