Pablo PicassoBy: Hilary Doherty

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Picasso was one of the greatest

artists of his time.

He was born in 1881 and died in

1973.

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Picasso’s image as an artist is one of infinite diversity including sculpture, ceramics, paintings and stage design.

Some of my favorite periods of his work include The Blue Period, The Triumphant Years, The Rose Period and abstract work.

Picasso’s creations are not merely part of the sum total of 20th-century art, but rather are seen as its icons. “Guernica”, for instance is unquestionably the most famous modern painting, worldwide, matched as an art classic only by works such as Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” or Rembrandt’s “Night Watch”.

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Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, to artist and teacher Jose Ruiz Blasco, and his wife Maria Picasso. 

A decade later, young Pablo Picasso learned how to paint from his father, who had been appointed teacher at the Da Guarda art school in La Coruna. 

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Picasso's artistic production is

usually described in

terms of a series of overlapping periods. In his “blue period” (1901–4) he depicted the world of the

poor.

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When I was fourteen I even painted a few of his works on my

garage walls, which are about

4 feet tall, including “Poor People on the

Seashore” also know as “The

Tragedy,”

And “La Soup”

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As one of the founders of modern abstract art, Pablo

Picasso is generally associated with cubism and

related styles which are predominantly abstract. It is therefore essential to realize that at the time of Picasso's

blue period, abstract art as we know it today didn't yet exist.

As a twenty year old man Pablo Picasso was an

accomplished classicist painter, but like many young

artists of his time, he was dissatisfied with the

principles of traditional art.

This is my drawing and painting of “Jacqueline”

I also have drawn “The Old Man and the Guitar”

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In 1907 Picasso painted Les Demoiselles

d'Avignon (Mus. of Modern Art, New

York City), a radical departure from the artistic ideas of the preceding ages and now considered the

most significant work in the

development toward cubism and

modern abstraction.

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In his later years Picasso turned to

creations of fantasy and

comic invention. He worked

consistently in sculpture,

ceramics, and in the graphic arts,

producing thousands of

superb drawings, illustrations, and stage designs.

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By the time he died, he had created over

22,000 works of art in a variety of

mediums.