Pablo Picasso Biography

Pablo was shown his drawing talent since early childhood. He was studied his father since 7 years. He had been instructed to draw paws of pigeons on the father`s pictures. But once his father charged to complete the picture of the quite large still life and he was surprised his son`s technique so much, that he by legend left off own painting.

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Picador, 1889

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Study for a torso, 1892

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Science and Charity, 1897

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Self-Portrait, 1907

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First Communion, 1896

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Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1896

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Absinthe Drinker, 1901

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Portrait of Françoise, 1946

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Woman-flower , 1946

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Jacqueline with Flowers, 1954

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Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, 1920

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Two characters, 1934

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Profile of human rights, 1892

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Maternity, 1905

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Self-Portrait, 1896

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Self-Portrait in Blue Period, 1901

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The Family of Saltimbanques, 1905

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Still Life with Guitar, 1921

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Matador, 1897

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Guernica, 1937

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Bullfight and Pigeons, 1890

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Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910


The 'Rose period' is represented more full of life tones sienna and pink, and also steady topics of pictures - clowns, vagabond actors , acrobats. Charmed with comedians which became the models his picture, he often visited the Circus Medrano. During that time a clown was his favorite personage. In 1904 Picasso met a model Fernande Olivier who inspired his for creation many important pictures of that time. They lived in the centre of Paris' bohemianism and Mecca of painters - in Le Bateau-Lavoir. That strange half-destroyed building with dark stairs and winding corridors was home for various company: poets, traders, yardmen. There in an atmosphere of absolute poverty and on a verge of misery and in indescribable creative chaos Picasso drew his Fernande and searched for his own way.

Cézanne proclaimed: 'Nature is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color'. He was echoed by Picasso: 'Cubism has never been anything but art for the sake of art, which excludes all concepts of immaterial reality. Color is important only insofar as it helps to portray volumes'. They distinguish the "Cubism" period of Picasso on some steps: "cézanne cubism" characterized "cézanne" tones: sienna, light-green, brown, but more washed-out, muddy with using of the simple geometric shapes which a picture is built from. "Analytic" cubism: a subject is separated on small parts which are distinctly detached one from another and the subject form is faded on the canvas. On the step of "synthetic" cubism pictures of Picacco had the decorative and contrast character. They were generally represented with still life of the different subjects: musical instruments, music, bottles of vine, smoke pipes, dishes, posters.
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1915

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As clown, 1957

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With Sylvette David, 1954

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Fran?oise Gilot in Antibes, 1946

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With Paloma and Claude, 1955

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Marie-Th?r?se Walter, 1936

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Marie-Th?r?se Walter, 1928

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“Le mystere Picasso”, 1955

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with Fran?oise Gilot, 1950

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With Jacqueline Roque, 1960

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with Olga and Jean Hugo, 1926

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Picasso and Sylvette David, 1954

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with Jacqueline Roque, 1960

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with Jacqueline Roque, 1955

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Jacqueline, Chateau de Vauvenargues, 1962

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Lump, Picasso and Jacqueline, 1957

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with Gary Cooper and his daughter, 1956

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with Samuel Kootz, 1947

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Cafe Rotonda, 1916

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With Paolo, 1920


In 1911, Autumn Picasso parted with Fernande. His new muse became Eva (Marcelle Humbert). They lived together and he created his own the cubism works on Montparnasse and in Avignon. Then were become the painful years: the World War I, a mobilization and parting withy many friends, a sudden illness and tragic Eva's death.
In 1917, Spring a poet Jean Cocteau collaborated with Sergei Diaghilev had proposed to Picasso to make sketches and decorations for a future ballet. The artist went to work in Rome where he fell in love in one dansers of the Diaghilev's group - Olga Khokhlova. They were married in 1918 and their son Paul was born in 1921. That time the Picasso's pictures were very far from cubism, they had clear and intelligible shapes, light tones, correct faces. Picasso was hard criticized for interchange of style as before for cubism. He had answered those accusations in his interview 'Every time, when I want something to say I say it in such manner, which accordance with mine sensation it has to say.'
The 24 quotes
Everything you can imagine is real.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
I do not seek. I find.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
'Beauty will be convulsive or won't be at all' - said André Breton, an establisher of Surrealizm as the direction in art, set his goal achievement true depths of the art creature, due to penetrating in the world of dreams and involuntary. In an article on Picasso Breton analyzed the causes of own admiration of the artist and concluded that 'reality is not limited to what we see', and that 'artist had to grasp the model, or the 'internal concept'. The numerous portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter that make up the surrealist legacy of Picasso can be called the understanding of the model. It was in 1927, one cold day Picasso had met 17 years old Marie-Thérèse. He had bought for her the castle Château de Boisgeloup and she became there his the only model and heroine of some his known pictures. In 1935 Marie-Thérèse had gave birth to daughter Maya, but before 1936 Picasso parted with them, also he wasn't devoted with Olga Khokhlova until her death in 1955.
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Boy with a Pipe, 1905

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Dora Maar with a cat, 1941

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Seated Woman, 1909

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Les Noces de Pierrette, 1905



After the war, the artist's work for obvious reasons becomes more bright and joyful. Besides, there is a new love in his life. In 1946 Picasso had met a young artist - woman Françoise Gilot and came over with her in the castle Grimaldy. Soon she gave him a son Claude and a daughter Paloma. He often paints Françoise with children and the exquisite decorativeness of these paintings emphasizes the atmosphere of comfort and family idyll. They have lived together for almost 10 years in the south of France. But in 1953 she ran away from Picasso with both children through his difficult character and permanent infidelity; it was hard for him that parting and it reverberated on his work of that period. An ugly old pygmy and young beautiful girl are contrasted as a slapstick in many drawings with Indian ink.

Picasso died in 1973, April 8. He was 92 - years old multimillionaire and buried near his own castle Vauvenargues. He left more than 80,000 works (another information approximately 20,000). He said about Death: 'I think about Death all time, it is as a woman who will never leave me'. In 1970 the Picasso Museum was opened in Barcelona (the pictures for that museum were given in possession by himself) and in 1985 with helping his heir apparents was founded the Picasso Museum in Paris, counted more than 200 pictures, 150 sculptures and some thousands drawings, collages, prints, documents. The Picasso's creature had been influenced on developing of Art and Culture of XX century. And on the world auctions before nowadays are searched and sat out for sale new and new little known works of famous artist from his huge heritage.