Pablo Picasso: The Modern Artist
The Talent
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. Born in a family of artistic talent his father Jose Ruiz Blanco himself a professor of drawing and art, Pablo started displaying his artistic skills from a very young age in spite of not performing well in other subjects at school. The reason may be his suffering from dyslexia which made school studies difficult for him. After his family moved to Barcelona when he was 14, he was admitted to Barcelona Art Academy by his father who taught there. Both Pablo’s mother Maria Picasso Ruiz and his father recognized the talent of their son and saw to it that Pablo could take up his career as an artist. The decision by Pablo’s parents became momentous as Pablo went to become one of the most famous modern artists spanning a period of over 70 years. It is obvious that the artists who came after him were immensely influenced by his art...
Pablo Picasso: Cubism & Other Forms
CubismIn 1907 while studying in Paris, picture of a young woman of Avignon, Southeastern France was painted by Picasso in a unique style never seen before. The angles in the painting were queer with shockingly exaggerated physical features that hardly resembled a real woman. This painting was the beginning of the style created by Picasso which came to be known as Cubism. Other painters of his time started adopting this style in their paintings. Picasso meanwhile continued with his experiment on cubism using paper and other materials on his later paintings, a form of art that came to be known as ‘collage’...
