Pablo Picasso Biography
Pablo Picasso is a very well known artist of the 20th century and his work is still famous today. Picasso went through many time periods, but his most famous ones are the blue period, the rose period, and cubism. Pablo Picasso was born in Màlaga, Spain, in 1881. Picasso was raised by his mother Doña Maria and his father Don Josè Ruiz Blasco. Picasso's father was an art teacher and started teaching him how to draw as a child. "By the time he was 13 years old, his skill level had surpassed his fathers" ("Pablo Picasso Biography"). Attending school was a challenge for Picasso because all he wanted to do was doodle and that caused him to get in trouble. "In 1895, when Picasso was 14 years old, he moved with his family to Barcelona, Spain. Picasso
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Olga was a big time ballet dancer and inspired Picasso to be more classical and soon enough he had a new apartment and his parties became more formal. Olga and Picasso birthed a son named Paulo in 1921. The birth of Paulo caused Picasso to start painting mother and child pictures. Picasso started to not like the fame and attention he was getting from the community. According to arthistoryarchive.com ,Picasso wrote, "Of all the misfortunes – hunger, misery, being misunderstood by the public – fame is by far the worst. This is how God chastises the artist. It is sad. It is true". Olga being the big ballet dancer she was, could not understand why Picasso didn't like the fame. Soon after this issue, Pablo had an affair with Paulo's seventeen year old nurse Marie Thérèse Walters. In 1927 Surrealism took action in Picasso's work. Sooner than later, surrealism became vastly popular to a wide range of people. Many of Picasso's surrealism art pieces depicted different aspects of Thérèse Walters. Picasso claimed that during 1935 was the worst time of his life. Thérèse Walters was pregnant with Picasso's girl Maya. This caused Olga and Picasso's divorce harder and harder because they each had a lot of wealth and that triggered lawyers. During this time of financial trouble, Picasso started including the picture of a bull in a lot of his art works …show more content…
Picasso created the dove that represents the symbol of peace. In 1950, Picasso earned a peace prize from the USSR and in 1961 he earned his second one. Picasso moved houses and lived at the Chateau Vauvenargues and started to paint in whit and green. Pablo Picasso started to die out in the publics eye. The public believed Picasso painted pictures as a hobby and nothing special for anyone who encountered it. The thing about Picasso was the fact he didn't care about anyone else's criticism. Picasso only cared about what he though about his paintings and everyone else's opinion seemed so little to
Olga was a big time ballet dancer and inspired Picasso to be more classical and soon enough he had a new apartment and his parties became more formal. Olga and Picasso birthed a son named Paulo in 1921. The birth of Paulo caused Picasso to start painting mother and child pictures. Picasso started to not like the fame and attention he was getting from the community. According to arthistoryarchive.com ,Picasso wrote, "Of all the misfortunes – hunger, misery, being misunderstood by the public – fame is by far the worst. This is how God chastises the artist. It is sad. It is true". Olga being the big ballet dancer she was, could not understand why Picasso didn't like the fame. Soon after this issue, Pablo had an affair with Paulo's seventeen year old nurse Marie Thérèse Walters. In 1927 Surrealism took action in Picasso's work. Sooner than later, surrealism became vastly popular to a wide range of people. Many of Picasso's surrealism art pieces depicted different aspects of Thérèse Walters. Picasso claimed that during 1935 was the worst time of his life. Thérèse Walters was pregnant with Picasso's girl Maya. This caused Olga and Picasso's divorce harder and harder because they each had a lot of wealth and that triggered lawyers. During this time of financial trouble, Picasso started including the picture of a bull in a lot of his art works …show more content…
Picasso created the dove that represents the symbol of peace. In 1950, Picasso earned a peace prize from the USSR and in 1961 he earned his second one. Picasso moved houses and lived at the Chateau Vauvenargues and started to paint in whit and green. Pablo Picasso started to die out in the publics eye. The public believed Picasso painted pictures as a hobby and nothing special for anyone who encountered it. The thing about Picasso was the fact he didn't care about anyone else's criticism. Picasso only cared about what he though about his paintings and everyone else's opinion seemed so little to