Picasso.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (full name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María
de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso) was born on the
25th October, 1881 in Malaga in Spain. He was the first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and
Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was a painter and a professor of art at the School of
Crafts and the curator of a local museum. Picasso learnt the basics of art from his
father. Picasso also attended the Academy of Arts in Madrid, but dropped out within a
year of joining it.
He made his first trip to Paris in 1900 and loved the city. He lived with a friend Max
Jacob who was a journalist and a poet. Max worked in the day and slept in the night,
while Picasso slept during the day and worked during the night. Those were hard times for
Picasso and he burned many of his paintings to keep himself warm.
In 1901, Picasso started a magazine called Arte Joven in Madrid with his friend Soler.
He completely illustrated the first edition of the magazine. It was at this point that he
began to sign his paintings as simply Picasso rather than Pablo Ruiz y Picasso.
While in Paris, Pablo Picasso had a propensity for entertaining and had among his friends
people such as Andre Breton and Gertrude Stein. Picasso also had an active love life and
usually had several mistresses along with a wife or a primary partner.
All the paintings by Pablo Picasso are usually classified into various ?periods? based on
the moods and styles of the paintings. These, in turn, were largely affected by his
personal and love life.
His real work and career as a painter is said to begin around 1894 with a painting called
The First Communion, which showed his sister Lola, and the more famous painting by Pablo
Picasso called Portrait of Aunt Pepa. In 1897, his realistic style of painting became
influenced by Symbolism and came across in a series of landscapes where he used violet
and green tones in the colors.
de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso) was born on the
25th October, 1881 in Malaga in Spain. He was the first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and
Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was a painter and a professor of art at the School of
Crafts and the curator of a local museum. Picasso learnt the basics of art from his
father. Picasso also attended the Academy of Arts in Madrid, but dropped out within a
year of joining it.
He made his first trip to Paris in 1900 and loved the city. He lived with a friend Max
Jacob who was a journalist and a poet. Max worked in the day and slept in the night,
while Picasso slept during the day and worked during the night. Those were hard times for
Picasso and he burned many of his paintings to keep himself warm.
In 1901, Picasso started a magazine called Arte Joven in Madrid with his friend Soler.
He completely illustrated the first edition of the magazine. It was at this point that he
began to sign his paintings as simply Picasso rather than Pablo Ruiz y Picasso.
While in Paris, Pablo Picasso had a propensity for entertaining and had among his friends
people such as Andre Breton and Gertrude Stein. Picasso also had an active love life and
usually had several mistresses along with a wife or a primary partner.
All the paintings by Pablo Picasso are usually classified into various ?periods? based on
the moods and styles of the paintings. These, in turn, were largely affected by his
personal and love life.
His real work and career as a painter is said to begin around 1894 with a painting called
The First Communion, which showed his sister Lola, and the more famous painting by Pablo
Picasso called Portrait of Aunt Pepa. In 1897, his realistic style of painting became
influenced by Symbolism and came across in a series of landscapes where he used violet
and green tones in the colors.
Picasso Painting.
First I drew grid squares on both my paper and wooden block, and then I shaded the back of my paper and transferred the pencil onto the block and painted the lines all different colors.
