Pablo Picasso was immediately entered into the art world at a very young age by his father who quickly realised his talent and set about helping him to achieve his potential. He was rushed into the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the tender age of 14 and progressed quickly.
Picasso entered a phase which lasted from 1900 to 1906 which is referred to as his Blue and Rose Period. As in the name, the blue period involved blue in many of his works, generally representing a negative side of his subjects' lives. This style gained popularity even with the most traditional of art experts. His paintings picked up a more pink tone during his later rose period.
Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and George Braques all became friends of Pablo Picasso after he moved to the capital of arts, Paris, in 1904. Here Picasso was introduced to new art movements by its very influences, such as French Fauvism and Picasso.
Picasso was a big fan of the works of Paul Cezanne and this was the inspiration for the newly founded art movement of Cubism, and later, Synthetic Cubism. Fellow artists George Braque and Juan Gris were also key to the principles of Cubism.
Picasso's art was enveloped by a symbolic style as shown in his works "Guernica", "Dying horse" and "Weeping woman". Guernica represented the Spanish Civil War air-attack in suitable barbarity and was shown at the Paris World's Fair in 1937.
Guernica took pride of place in New York's museum of modern art up to 1981. It stayed away from Spain whilst Picasso rejected General Franco's fascist rule of Spain. After this it was taken to the Prado Museum and then the Queen Sofia Center of Art, both in Madrid, Spain.
Picasso entered a phase which lasted from 1900 to 1906 which is referred to as his Blue and Rose Period. As in the name, the blue period involved blue in many of his works, generally representing a negative side of his subjects' lives. This style gained popularity even with the most traditional of art experts. His paintings picked up a more pink tone during his later rose period.
Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and George Braques all became friends of Pablo Picasso after he moved to the capital of arts, Paris, in 1904. Here Picasso was introduced to new art movements by its very influences, such as French Fauvism and Picasso.
Picasso was a big fan of the works of Paul Cezanne and this was the inspiration for the newly founded art movement of Cubism, and later, Synthetic Cubism. Fellow artists George Braque and Juan Gris were also key to the principles of Cubism.
Picasso's art was enveloped by a symbolic style as shown in his works "Guernica", "Dying horse" and "Weeping woman". Guernica represented the Spanish Civil War air-attack in suitable barbarity and was shown at the Paris World's Fair in 1937.
Guernica took pride of place in New York's museum of modern art up to 1981. It stayed away from Spain whilst Picasso rejected General Franco's fascist rule of Spain. After this it was taken to the Prado Museum and then the Queen Sofia Center of Art, both in Madrid, Spain.
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