By Angela Gevarghes – 4CK
The artistic genius Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881. In his life he did more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and ceramics with many different meanings and messages.
Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. From a young age he showed a lot of interest and skill for drawing. According to his mother, Picasso’s first word was ‘‘piz, piz’’,which is the short form of “lapiz”, the Spanish word for ‘‘pencil’’. His father was a painter and he saw that Picasso was a genius and encouraged him.
Pablo Picasso was such a good artist he was even famous when he was still alive – unlike many other artists.
According to Wikipedia Pablo Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. It’s so hard to say!
Unlike many artists who only become famous after they die, Picasso was very famous even while he was alive because he was so good.
He studied art in Madrid in 1897, then in Barcelona in 1899, where he worked with poets, writers and artists. According to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1904 Picasso lived on his own in Paris and Spain, and people say he was very unhappy. “Picasso’s Blue Period started from the late 1901-1904. this depicted themes of poverty, loneliness and despair,” the museum’s website says.
After that, Picasso started to paint happier things like clowns and fun characters and he loved to paint them in different ways. The clowns were sad the way he painted them though because he sees things in different ways.
After World War 1 (1914-1918) Picasso started using traditional styles, experimenting less with the African and Oceanic arts. “In the early 1920s, he devised a unique variant classicism using mythological images such as centaurs, minotaurs, nymphs, and fauns inspired by the classical world of Italy,” according to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In between all the painting he managed to find time to start a family. He had four children their names were Paloma Picasso, Paul Joseph Picasso, Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso and Maya Widmaier-Picasso. Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973.
His famous paintings include First Communion, La Vie, Garcon a la Pipe, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Portrait of Dora Maar and Guernica.
FACTS:
– Pablo Picasso’s first word was ‘pencil’.
– He started painting at the age of nine.
-When someone stole the Mona Lisa in 1911, people said it was Picasso but then they realised it was not him.
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