Pablo Picasso

Draftsman, painter and Spanish of the most prominent artists who have participated in many scattered in the world artistic movements, has had a great influence on the great artists of his era, and it was next to the French Georges Braque and the Spanish Juan Gris, one of the founders of "cubism" movement in the drawing.
Birth and upbringing
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25 / October 1881 in the city of Malaga southern Spain. Grew up in the confines of a bourgeois family, and his father, Jose Ruiz teacher of drawing at the School of the Andalusian city of Malaga and his mother, Maria Picasso housewife and her father's house Italian and Spanish mother.
The study configuration
He joined the Institute of Fine Arts in Barcelona in 1895 before completing his fifteen years of age, having passed in one tests a week requires a completed months and showed superiority in the study sent him and his father to the San Fernando Royal Fine Arts in Madrid, a prominent art schools of the Spanish Academy.
Has not received an atmosphere of renewal, which he saw Picasso in Barcelona and tried to apply them in Madrid has been well received among the people around him, he decided to leave school and travel to Paris.
Mindset
He always declares that it is a pacifist and was a member of the Spanish Communist Party, and when he lived in France became involved in the French Communist Party until his death.
Professional experience
The father of Picasso is his first professor in the art of drawing and first discovered his talent and he did not ten exceed the old, where the first oil paintings his fee, after having watched the match for bullfighting, a panel "Knight Wrestling little bulls" which he kept and refused to abandon them throughout his life.
Some accounts mention that the father of Picasso when he saw his skill gave him a painting brushes and palette and vowed not to return to the drawing for the rest of his life.
Picasso his independent professional moving between Paris and Barcelona began in the period between 1901 and 1904, which defined "blue phase" where temperatures prevailed this color on production because of his grief for the suicide of his friend Carlos Kasagemas who was his companion in the artistic Parisian adventure.
The panel "bury Kasagemas" beginning of the stage in which it is the features of human misery he saw in the lives of beggars and alcoholics and women of the night, then you know Picasso on his girlfriend Fernande Olivier, and started with them (1904-1905) "pink phase" of his career, which defeated where red, pink Alllonan on his paintings, which focused on the world of the circus and it was highlighted by the panel "tumblers family."
Americans know Picasso Liu and his sister Gertrude Stein, who became the first patrons of his art and They collect his works, and in 1906, Picasso's work began to take another turn dominated by Greek art and ancient African and Iberian influences.
Highlights were the plates this stage of the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," which did not understand the critics, not even Tlieion artists at the time, and then became one of the most important paintings in the world.
With influenced he and his friend, the French Georges Braque treatment volumetric image forms invented by the great painter Paul Cezanne, invented by Picasso in a 1908 series of landscape drawings innovative style, described by one critic as if she was made on the basis of small cubes, hence the term "school Cubism. "
The favorite themes of drawings Picasso Cubist phase, which began in 1909, including musical instruments and the nature of static and friends. He then developed a new cube in the art when added pieces of tarpaulin and cardboard to the plate "with the static nature of the chair of straw" to arise so "synthetic cubism" stage (1912).
Rolled his dazzling and leading, featured the most important achievements of existence in 1937, a mural huge "Guernica," considered by most critics and one of the most important individual works of art in the twentieth century, inspired by Picasso from the bombing of the German Nazi flight to the village of Guernica Basque northern Spain at the request of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the Spanish civil war, condemning the horrors of war and cruelty.
Continued Picasso produced until his last years, and the total of his paintings for more than two thousand Panel scattered in museums and art collections in Europe and around the world, and included the production of heavy and many other forms of artistic expression, including sculpture, engraving, ceramics, design decorations and clothes for theater performances.
Awards & Accolades
She won the Carnegie Prize in 1930, one of the prestigious awards prestigious in the world of art and n have high material value, provided by the Art Museum of the Carnegie Foundation, and also received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962, given to him by the World Peace Council.
Death
Pablo Picasso died on April 8 / April 1973 in Mougins, southern France, in the centenary of his birth in 1981, introduced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO" award "Medal of Picasso" to give prominent in the world of art and culture figures.