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Pablo Ruiz Picasso
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Birth Date :
25/10/1881
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in Malaga, Spain
Death Date :
8 April 1973
When he was thirteen years old he initiated into two mysteries – the mystery of power and the mystery of death. His seven years old sister Conchita was suffering of diphtheria. He saw his parents struggle to save her. He confused that they also celebrated Christmas and gave presents to the children, and tried to protect her from any knowledge of death. Sad Picasso made a terrible agreement with God that if the God could save his sister he would never pickup brush again. At last, his sister died and he thought that the God was evil. At the same time he was convinced that it was possible for the God to kill Conchita and believed in the power of the God. He was also convinced that the death of his sister had released him to be a painter.[br /]
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The family moved to Barcelona after the death of his sister. During his early days in Barcelona he drew a picture "Christ Blessing the Devil" which was the evidence of the deep conflict raging within him. Christ with a shining aura around his head is blessing with his left hand on overwhelmed Devil. At the same time he painted ‘The Holy Family in Egypt’ and ‘Alter to the Bless Virgin’.[br /]
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During 1896 he drew many religious pictures : Christ appearing to a Nun, "Christ being adorned by The Angels," ‘The renunciation,’ The Last Supper, The Resurrection. He gave a tender expression to some of the most powerful symbols of religious worship, but he did a picture of Christ with no face – impersonal, unreal and without answers.[br /]
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Whenever he himself got into a trouble in any matter for example he was raided or had his sculptures cast in Bronze when doing so illegal or caught smuggling currency out of the country someone was able to silent the things up for him.[br /]
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Andre-Louis Dobois in ministry of the Interior was not able to help him and a German Ambassador was also helpless. Arno, Broker – Hitler’s favorite sculptor who appealed directly to Himmler’s assistant the SS general. Henrich Muller, "If you lay a hand on Picasso (he warned them in the matter of currency) the world’s press will cause such an uproar you will leave dizzy. If Muller did not sign the document to put on end to any action against Picasso would appeal directly to the Fuhrer. Muller knew that on the Fuhrer’s orders statues from the squares of Paris had been melted down to provide bronze to cast the work of Arno Broker. And he withheld his signature. In his biography Broker recorded what Hitler said, "In politics all the artists are innocents like Parsifal. "Picasso’s friend Casagemas shot the lady he loved and then shot himself and died. The effect of this tragedy was very deep on Picasso. He had gained the emotional experience which stimulate the powerful expression of the works of the so called ‘Blue Perion’. Various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few years. He painted two death portraits of Casagemas in 1901 as well as two funeral scenes (‘Personnes on devil and Evocation’).[br /]
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The family moved to Barcelona after the death of his sister. During his early days in Barcelona he drew a picture "Christ Blessing the Devil" which was the evidence of the deep conflict raging within him. Christ with a shining aura around his head is blessing with his left hand on overwhelmed Devil. At the same time he painted ‘The Holy Family in Egypt’ and ‘Alter to the Bless Virgin’.[br /]
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During 1896 he drew many religious pictures : Christ appearing to a Nun, "Christ being adorned by The Angels," ‘The renunciation,’ The Last Supper, The Resurrection. He gave a tender expression to some of the most powerful symbols of religious worship, but he did a picture of Christ with no face – impersonal, unreal and without answers.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Whenever he himself got into a trouble in any matter for example he was raided or had his sculptures cast in Bronze when doing so illegal or caught smuggling currency out of the country someone was able to silent the things up for him.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Andre-Louis Dobois in ministry of the Interior was not able to help him and a German Ambassador was also helpless. Arno, Broker – Hitler’s favorite sculptor who appealed directly to Himmler’s assistant the SS general. Henrich Muller, "If you lay a hand on Picasso (he warned them in the matter of currency) the world’s press will cause such an uproar you will leave dizzy. If Muller did not sign the document to put on end to any action against Picasso would appeal directly to the Fuhrer. Muller knew that on the Fuhrer’s orders statues from the squares of Paris had been melted down to provide bronze to cast the work of Arno Broker. And he withheld his signature. In his biography Broker recorded what Hitler said, "In politics all the artists are innocents like Parsifal. "Picasso’s friend Casagemas shot the lady he loved and then shot himself and died. The effect of this tragedy was very deep on Picasso. He had gained the emotional experience which stimulate the powerful expression of the works of the so called ‘Blue Perion’. Various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few years. He painted two death portraits of Casagemas in 1901 as well as two funeral scenes (‘Personnes on devil and Evocation’).[br /]
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Malaga Spain on October 25, 1881. His father Don Jose Ruiz Blasco was an art teacher. His mother’s name was Dona Maria Picasso Lopez. According to Spanish tradition Pablo was given the last name of his father Ruiz and of mother's Picasso. This is how his name was kept. Pablo Ruiz Picasso.[br /]
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As a child he was more interested in painting than learning. From the beginning Picasso displayed the bohemian personality. He disliked instruction. The school allowed for Picasso to take his pigeons with him if he would pay the attention to study rather than learning, he painted the pigeons.[br /]
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His father soon recognized his son’s genuine potential for painting. He encouraged him to paint traditional elements such as nature and people. His father tried his best to maintain Picasso’s rebellious nature throughout his childhood but couldn’t succeed After some years the rebellious side of his character became a distinctive feature of his character.[br /]
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In 1891 at the age of 10 his family moved to La Coruna, he became his father’s pupil and started his first paintings. At the age of 13 his first exhibition was held in La-Coruna with the support of his father.[br /]
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In 1895 the family moved to Barcelona. At the age of 15 he performed brilliantly the entrance examination of Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts – ‘La Llotia’. Parents hoped that their son would achieve success as an academic painter.[br /]
[br /]
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In 1897 his painting ‘Science of charite’ depicting a doctor, a nun and a child at a sick woman’s bedside was awarded honorable mention in Madrid at the Fine Arts Exhibition. Finally he was settled down in the Spanish capital Madrid. He spent his time recording life around him, in the café, on the streets, in brothels. Where he discovered Spanish paintings. In 1898 he fell ill and spent most of the time of the year in Catalan village in the company of his Barcelona friend Manuel Pallares. In early 1899 he was a changed man; he had put on weight and had learned to live on his own in the open countryside. He made up his mind to break with his art school training and to reject his family’s plans for his future. He decided to prefer his mother’s surname and dropped the Ruiz altogether.[br /]
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[br /]
In Barcelona Picasso moved among a circle of Catalan artists and writers whose eyes were turned towards Paris. These were his friends at the Café Ells Quatre Gats where Picasso had his Barcelona exhibition in February 1900 and they were the subject of more than 50 portraits in the show. In addition there was a dark, moody "modernista",
painting, "Last Moments" (later painted over) showing the visit of a priest to the bedside of a dying woman. A work that was accepted for the Spanish section of the Exposition in Paris in that year. He was very eager to see his own work in place and to experience Paris firsthand, he set-off in the company of his studio – mate Carles Casagemas to conquer, if not Paris at least a corner Montmartre.
Picasso returned to Spain with Casagemas about who had become future of his love affair and Picasso tried to amuse him. Casagemas returned to Paris and attempted to shoot the lady he loved then shoot himself and died. The effect of this incident was very deep on Picasso. He had gained the emotional experience and the material that would stimulate the powerful expression of the works of the so called ‘Blue Period’ because various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few years. He made two death portraits of Casagemas in 1901 as well as two funeral scenes (Personnes on deuil and Evocation).[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Between 1901 and mid 1904 when blue was the predominant color in his paintings, Picasso moved back between Barcelona and Paris with his work material from one place to another, he moved to Paris just a few days before his 19th birthday. He didn’t know French and having no place to stay. But he didn’t bother about it. He spent most of his time in Streets, at café, in the Louvere at the Universal Exhibition, at the Grand an Petit Palais, in the odd whore house. In Paris he visited to the Woman’s Prison of Saint Lazare (1901-1902) which provided him free models. The subject of maternity also occupied Picasso at a time when he was searching for material that would best express traditional art-historical subjects in 20th Century.[br /]
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[br /]
Finally he made the decision to move permanently to Paris in 1904. Shortly after settling in Paris he met Fernande Oliver. His good relationship with Fernande Oliver reflected on his work change of spirit and specially a change of intellectual and artistic currents. He changed his palette to pink and reds, introducing the so called Rose Period (1904-05). Many of his subjects were drawn from the circus, which he visited several times a week. He and his friend Gullaume Apollinaire painted some portraits together their performers ‘Acrobate a la boute’ (1905), ‘Lacteur’ (1905) became a kind of evocation of artist’s position in modern society. Picasso peculiarly made his identification in ‘Famille de Salimabanques (1905).[br /]
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In the summer of 1906 during Picasso’s stay in Gosol-Spain his work entered a new phase, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian and African art in the end of 1904. Fernande Oliver became his mistress and her presence inspired him during the years leading him up to Cubism. Especially on the summer trip to Gosol ("Woman with Loaves"), the sculpture ‘Buste de fomme au bouquet" (Fernande) (1909) and several paintings related to it (Femme aux poires) (Fernande) 1909).[br /]
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He began to work on a large composition that called ‘Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon was so radical in style – its picture surface resembling fractured glass that it was not understood by contemporary painters and critics. The ideal form of the female body and mask like painting of the faces (influenced by African Art) had made this work controversial. Yet the work was firmly based upon art-historical tradition.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Picasso and the French artist Georges Braque painted landscapes in 1908 in a style later described by a critic as being made of ‘little cubes’ thus leading cubism. Some of their paintings are so similar that it is difficult to tell them apart. Both of they worked to-gether during 1902-12. Which is the only time Picasso ever worked with another painter in this way. Together they developed the first phase of cubism known as Analytic Cubism. Early Cubist paintings were often misunderstood by critics and viewers because they were thought to be merely geometric art.[br /]
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[br /]
Yet the painters themselves believed that they were presenting a new kind of art that broke away from Renaissance tradition, especially from the use of perspective and illusion. They showed multiple views of an object on the same canvas to convey more information than could be contained in a single, limited illusionistic view.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1912 Picasso and Braque were gluing real paper and other materials into their canvases, taking a stage further the cubist conception of a work as a self-contained constructed object-pasting paper and a piece of oilcloth to the canvas and combining these with painted areas, Picasso created his first college ‘Nature morte a la chaise cannee’ in 1912. This technique marked a transition to Synthetic Cubism (1912-14).[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
The Synthetic phase of cubism is more decorative, color played a major role although shapes remain fragmented and flat and the actual materials often had an industrial reference (sand or printed wall-paper)[br /]
Picasso practiced synthetic cubism throughout his career but not exclusively. Two important works of 1915 demonstrate his simultaneous work in different styles : Arlequin is a synthetic cubist painting, whereas a drawing of his dealer, Vollard is executed in his Ingresque style, so called because of its draftsmanship emulating that of the 19th century French neoclassical artist Jean – August – Dominique Ingres.[br /]
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[b]Cubist Sculpture[/b][br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Picasso created cubist sculptures as well as paintings. The bronze bust ‘Tele de femme’ (1909) (Museum of Modern Art) shows his perfect skill in handling three-dimensional form. He constructed ‘Mandoline’ (1914) from odds and ends of wood, metal, paper and non-artistic materials in which he explored the spatial hypotheses of cubist painting. His sculpture ‘La verre d’absinthe’ (1914) combining a silver sugar strainer with a painted bronze sculpture anticipates his much later, "found object" creations such as ‘Baboon and Young’ (1951) as well as pop art objects of the 1960s.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
His reputation as a major sculptor of 20th century came only after his death because he had kept much of his sculpture in his own collection. In Julio Gonzalez’s studio in Paris in 1928 he began to work in iron and sheet metal. In 1931 he left his wife Olga and moved with his new mistress Marie Therese Walter to a country home at Boisgelop where he had room for sculpture studios and he began to work with Marie Therese as his muse on large scale plaster heads end until the and of his life Picasso continued working in sculpture in a variety of materials.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Picasso never became an official member of any art group. But he had intimate connections with the most important art movement during the two world wars. The Surrealist[br /]
establishment including its main propagandist Andre Breton claimed him as one of their own and Picasso’s art gained a new dimension from contact with his Surrecalist friends, particularly the writers.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
The Surrealist movement gave the new subject to Picasso especially erotic ones as well as a reinforcement of disturbing elements already in his work. The many variations on the subject of bathers with their overtly sexual and contorted forms (Dinard series – 1929) clearly show the impact of the Surreaslism. Like many of the Surrealist writers in 1930 Picasso played with the idea of metamorphosis.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Poet- Picasso’s Surrealism found its strongest expression in his poems. He began to write poetry in 1934 and during one year he totally gave up paintings. At the beginning 1937 he wrote a poem full of violent imagery, designed to ridicule France, who was presented as a loathsome, barely human, haury slyg. "Dream and Lie of France" was written in Spenish in his style which avoided any rules of syntax or grammar. He said, "I would prefer to invent a grammar of my own than to bind myself to rules which do not belong to me." The collections of his poems were published in "Cahiers d’ Art" (1935) and in ‘La Gaceta de Arte’ (1936) Some years later he wrote the Surrealist play ‘De Desir attrape par la queue’ (1941).[br /]
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In 1944 he joined the Communist party, led demonstrations against his political views in his gallery itself. At the same time he opened up his studio.[br /]
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[br /]
In 1953 Francois Gilot with their two children left Picasso. In 1954 he met Jacqueline Roque and they married in 1961. She became the principal images and source of inspiration for practically all of his late works.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1965 he was admitted in hospital for gall-bladder and prostate surgery. Because of the failure of his eyesight and growing deafness, he avoided to meet the people. He told Brassai, "Whenever I see you my first impulse is to reach in my pocket to offer you a cigarette, eventhough I know very well that neither of us smokes any longer. Age has forced us to give it up, but the desire remains ! It’s the same with making love. We don’t do it anymore, but the desire is still with us !"[br /]
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[br /]
On June 30, 1972 Picasso faced the terror that consumed him and drew it. It was his last self portrait. Next day the art history Pierre Daix came to him. He told him that he made drawing last day. He had touch on something there. It was not like anything ever done. He took the portrait and then put it down without any comments. Pierre Daix said that it was a face of frozen anguish and primordial horror held next to the mask that he had worn for so long and that had fooled so many.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
On Sunday 8th April 1973 at the age of 91 he died of heart failure in his Villa Notre Dome de Vie near Mougins.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
He told his cardiologist Dr. Bernal, "you are wrong not to be married. It’s useful". They were his last coherent words.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
On the morning of Picasso’s burial his grand son Pablito excluded himself from his grandfather’s funeral and drank potassium-chloride bleach. He was taken to hospital and died three months later on July 11, 1973. On October 20, 1977 in the year of fiftieth anniversary of their meeting, Marie Therese hanged herself in the garage of her house. She was sixty-eight years old. On October 15, 1986 at three o’clock in the morning Jacqueline Picasso’s wife shot herself on the temple while sleeping on her bed. These events were the part of the dark, tragic legacy Picasso left behind his life. His tragedy was that he longed for the ultimate in painting and died knowing that it had eluded him. He was not a timeless genius, in fact a time-bound genius.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Throughout his life time his work was exhibited on countless occasions. At the Louvere in Paris honoring him on his 90th birthday until then, living artists had not been shown there. In 1980 a major retrospective showing his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
As a child he was more interested in painting than learning. From the beginning Picasso displayed the bohemian personality. He disliked instruction. The school allowed for Picasso to take his pigeons with him if he would pay the attention to study rather than learning, he painted the pigeons.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
His father soon recognized his son’s genuine potential for painting. He encouraged him to paint traditional elements such as nature and people. His father tried his best to maintain Picasso’s rebellious nature throughout his childhood but couldn’t succeed After some years the rebellious side of his character became a distinctive feature of his character.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1891 at the age of 10 his family moved to La Coruna, he became his father’s pupil and started his first paintings. At the age of 13 his first exhibition was held in La-Coruna with the support of his father.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1895 the family moved to Barcelona. At the age of 15 he performed brilliantly the entrance examination of Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts – ‘La Llotia’. Parents hoped that their son would achieve success as an academic painter.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1897 his painting ‘Science of charite’ depicting a doctor, a nun and a child at a sick woman’s bedside was awarded honorable mention in Madrid at the Fine Arts Exhibition. Finally he was settled down in the Spanish capital Madrid. He spent his time recording life around him, in the café, on the streets, in brothels. Where he discovered Spanish paintings. In 1898 he fell ill and spent most of the time of the year in Catalan village in the company of his Barcelona friend Manuel Pallares. In early 1899 he was a changed man; he had put on weight and had learned to live on his own in the open countryside. He made up his mind to break with his art school training and to reject his family’s plans for his future. He decided to prefer his mother’s surname and dropped the Ruiz altogether.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In Barcelona Picasso moved among a circle of Catalan artists and writers whose eyes were turned towards Paris. These were his friends at the Café Ells Quatre Gats where Picasso had his Barcelona exhibition in February 1900 and they were the subject of more than 50 portraits in the show. In addition there was a dark, moody "modernista",
painting, "Last Moments" (later painted over) showing the visit of a priest to the bedside of a dying woman. A work that was accepted for the Spanish section of the Exposition in Paris in that year. He was very eager to see his own work in place and to experience Paris firsthand, he set-off in the company of his studio – mate Carles Casagemas to conquer, if not Paris at least a corner Montmartre.
Picasso returned to Spain with Casagemas about who had become future of his love affair and Picasso tried to amuse him. Casagemas returned to Paris and attempted to shoot the lady he loved then shoot himself and died. The effect of this incident was very deep on Picasso. He had gained the emotional experience and the material that would stimulate the powerful expression of the works of the so called ‘Blue Period’ because various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few years. He made two death portraits of Casagemas in 1901 as well as two funeral scenes (Personnes on deuil and Evocation).[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Between 1901 and mid 1904 when blue was the predominant color in his paintings, Picasso moved back between Barcelona and Paris with his work material from one place to another, he moved to Paris just a few days before his 19th birthday. He didn’t know French and having no place to stay. But he didn’t bother about it. He spent most of his time in Streets, at café, in the Louvere at the Universal Exhibition, at the Grand an Petit Palais, in the odd whore house. In Paris he visited to the Woman’s Prison of Saint Lazare (1901-1902) which provided him free models. The subject of maternity also occupied Picasso at a time when he was searching for material that would best express traditional art-historical subjects in 20th Century.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Finally he made the decision to move permanently to Paris in 1904. Shortly after settling in Paris he met Fernande Oliver. His good relationship with Fernande Oliver reflected on his work change of spirit and specially a change of intellectual and artistic currents. He changed his palette to pink and reds, introducing the so called Rose Period (1904-05). Many of his subjects were drawn from the circus, which he visited several times a week. He and his friend Gullaume Apollinaire painted some portraits together their performers ‘Acrobate a la boute’ (1905), ‘Lacteur’ (1905) became a kind of evocation of artist’s position in modern society. Picasso peculiarly made his identification in ‘Famille de Salimabanques (1905).[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In the summer of 1906 during Picasso’s stay in Gosol-Spain his work entered a new phase, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian and African art in the end of 1904. Fernande Oliver became his mistress and her presence inspired him during the years leading him up to Cubism. Especially on the summer trip to Gosol ("Woman with Loaves"), the sculpture ‘Buste de fomme au bouquet" (Fernande) (1909) and several paintings related to it (Femme aux poires) (Fernande) 1909).[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
He began to work on a large composition that called ‘Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon was so radical in style – its picture surface resembling fractured glass that it was not understood by contemporary painters and critics. The ideal form of the female body and mask like painting of the faces (influenced by African Art) had made this work controversial. Yet the work was firmly based upon art-historical tradition.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Picasso and the French artist Georges Braque painted landscapes in 1908 in a style later described by a critic as being made of ‘little cubes’ thus leading cubism. Some of their paintings are so similar that it is difficult to tell them apart. Both of they worked to-gether during 1902-12. Which is the only time Picasso ever worked with another painter in this way. Together they developed the first phase of cubism known as Analytic Cubism. Early Cubist paintings were often misunderstood by critics and viewers because they were thought to be merely geometric art.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Yet the painters themselves believed that they were presenting a new kind of art that broke away from Renaissance tradition, especially from the use of perspective and illusion. They showed multiple views of an object on the same canvas to convey more information than could be contained in a single, limited illusionistic view.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1912 Picasso and Braque were gluing real paper and other materials into their canvases, taking a stage further the cubist conception of a work as a self-contained constructed object-pasting paper and a piece of oilcloth to the canvas and combining these with painted areas, Picasso created his first college ‘Nature morte a la chaise cannee’ in 1912. This technique marked a transition to Synthetic Cubism (1912-14).[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
The Synthetic phase of cubism is more decorative, color played a major role although shapes remain fragmented and flat and the actual materials often had an industrial reference (sand or printed wall-paper)[br /]
Picasso practiced synthetic cubism throughout his career but not exclusively. Two important works of 1915 demonstrate his simultaneous work in different styles : Arlequin is a synthetic cubist painting, whereas a drawing of his dealer, Vollard is executed in his Ingresque style, so called because of its draftsmanship emulating that of the 19th century French neoclassical artist Jean – August – Dominique Ingres.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
[b]Cubist Sculpture[/b][br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Picasso created cubist sculptures as well as paintings. The bronze bust ‘Tele de femme’ (1909) (Museum of Modern Art) shows his perfect skill in handling three-dimensional form. He constructed ‘Mandoline’ (1914) from odds and ends of wood, metal, paper and non-artistic materials in which he explored the spatial hypotheses of cubist painting. His sculpture ‘La verre d’absinthe’ (1914) combining a silver sugar strainer with a painted bronze sculpture anticipates his much later, "found object" creations such as ‘Baboon and Young’ (1951) as well as pop art objects of the 1960s.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
His reputation as a major sculptor of 20th century came only after his death because he had kept much of his sculpture in his own collection. In Julio Gonzalez’s studio in Paris in 1928 he began to work in iron and sheet metal. In 1931 he left his wife Olga and moved with his new mistress Marie Therese Walter to a country home at Boisgelop where he had room for sculpture studios and he began to work with Marie Therese as his muse on large scale plaster heads end until the and of his life Picasso continued working in sculpture in a variety of materials.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Picasso never became an official member of any art group. But he had intimate connections with the most important art movement during the two world wars. The Surrealist[br /]
establishment including its main propagandist Andre Breton claimed him as one of their own and Picasso’s art gained a new dimension from contact with his Surrecalist friends, particularly the writers.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
The Surrealist movement gave the new subject to Picasso especially erotic ones as well as a reinforcement of disturbing elements already in his work. The many variations on the subject of bathers with their overtly sexual and contorted forms (Dinard series – 1929) clearly show the impact of the Surreaslism. Like many of the Surrealist writers in 1930 Picasso played with the idea of metamorphosis.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Poet- Picasso’s Surrealism found its strongest expression in his poems. He began to write poetry in 1934 and during one year he totally gave up paintings. At the beginning 1937 he wrote a poem full of violent imagery, designed to ridicule France, who was presented as a loathsome, barely human, haury slyg. "Dream and Lie of France" was written in Spenish in his style which avoided any rules of syntax or grammar. He said, "I would prefer to invent a grammar of my own than to bind myself to rules which do not belong to me." The collections of his poems were published in "Cahiers d’ Art" (1935) and in ‘La Gaceta de Arte’ (1936) Some years later he wrote the Surrealist play ‘De Desir attrape par la queue’ (1941).[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1944 he joined the Communist party, led demonstrations against his political views in his gallery itself. At the same time he opened up his studio.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1953 Francois Gilot with their two children left Picasso. In 1954 he met Jacqueline Roque and they married in 1961. She became the principal images and source of inspiration for practically all of his late works.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
In 1965 he was admitted in hospital for gall-bladder and prostate surgery. Because of the failure of his eyesight and growing deafness, he avoided to meet the people. He told Brassai, "Whenever I see you my first impulse is to reach in my pocket to offer you a cigarette, eventhough I know very well that neither of us smokes any longer. Age has forced us to give it up, but the desire remains ! It’s the same with making love. We don’t do it anymore, but the desire is still with us !"[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
On June 30, 1972 Picasso faced the terror that consumed him and drew it. It was his last self portrait. Next day the art history Pierre Daix came to him. He told him that he made drawing last day. He had touch on something there. It was not like anything ever done. He took the portrait and then put it down without any comments. Pierre Daix said that it was a face of frozen anguish and primordial horror held next to the mask that he had worn for so long and that had fooled so many.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
On Sunday 8th April 1973 at the age of 91 he died of heart failure in his Villa Notre Dome de Vie near Mougins.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
He told his cardiologist Dr. Bernal, "you are wrong not to be married. It’s useful". They were his last coherent words.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
On the morning of Picasso’s burial his grand son Pablito excluded himself from his grandfather’s funeral and drank potassium-chloride bleach. He was taken to hospital and died three months later on July 11, 1973. On October 20, 1977 in the year of fiftieth anniversary of their meeting, Marie Therese hanged herself in the garage of her house. She was sixty-eight years old. On October 15, 1986 at three o’clock in the morning Jacqueline Picasso’s wife shot herself on the temple while sleeping on her bed. These events were the part of the dark, tragic legacy Picasso left behind his life. His tragedy was that he longed for the ultimate in painting and died knowing that it had eluded him. He was not a timeless genius, in fact a time-bound genius.[br /]
[br /]
[br /]
Throughout his life time his work was exhibited on countless occasions. At the Louvere in Paris honoring him on his 90th birthday until then, living artists had not been shown there. In 1980 a major retrospective showing his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[br /]
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When he was thirteen years old he initiated into two mysteries – the mystery of power and the mystery of death. His seven years old sister Conchita was suffering of diphtheria. He saw his parents struggle to save her. He confused that they also celebrated Christmas and gave presents to the children, and tried to protect her from any knowledge of death. Sad Picasso made a terrible agreement with God that if the God could save his sister he would never pickup brush again. At last, his sister died and he thought that the God was evil. At the same time he was convinced that it was possible for the God to kill Conchita and believed in the power of the God. He was also convinced that the death of his sister had released him to be a painter.[br /]
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The family moved to Barcelona after the death of his sister. During his early days in Barcelona he drew a picture "Christ Blessing the Devil" which was the evidence of the deep conflict raging within him. Christ with a shining aura around his head is blessing with his left hand on overwhelmed Devil. At the same time he painted ‘The Holy Family in Egypt’ and ‘Alter to the Bless Virgin’.[br /]
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During 1896 he drew many religious pictures : Christ appearing to a Nun, "Christ being adorned by The Angels," ‘The renunciation,’ The Last Supper, The Resurrection. He gave a tender expression to some of the most powerful symbols of religious worship, but he did a picture of Christ with no face – impersonal, unreal and without answers.[br /]
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Whenever he himself got into a trouble in any matter for example he was raided or had his sculptures cast in Bronze when doing so illegal or caught smuggling currency out of the country someone was able to silent the things up for him.[br /]
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Andre-Louis Dobois in ministry of the Interior was not able to help him and a German Ambassador was also helpless. Arno, Broker – Hitler’s favorite sculptor who appealed directly to Himmler’s assistant the SS general. Henrich Muller, "If you lay a hand on Picasso (he warned them in the matter of currency) the world’s press will cause such an uproar you will leave dizzy. If Muller did not sign the document to put on end to any action against Picasso would appeal directly to the Fuhrer. Muller knew that on the Fuhrer’s orders statues from the squares of Paris had been melted down to provide bronze to cast the work of Arno Broker. And he withheld his signature. In his biography Broker recorded what Hitler said, "In politics all the artists are innocents like Parsifal. "Picasso’s friend Casagemas shot the lady he loved and then shot himself and died. The effect of this tragedy was very deep on Picasso. He had gained the emotional experience which stimulate the powerful expression of the works of the so called ‘Blue Perion’. Various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few years. He painted two death portraits of Casagemas in 1901 as well as two funeral scenes (‘Personnes on devil and Evocation’).[br /]
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The family moved to Barcelona after the death of his sister. During his early days in Barcelona he drew a picture "Christ Blessing the Devil" which was the evidence of the deep conflict raging within him. Christ with a shining aura around his head is blessing with his left hand on overwhelmed Devil. At the same time he painted ‘The Holy Family in Egypt’ and ‘Alter to the Bless Virgin’.[br /]
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During 1896 he drew many religious pictures : Christ appearing to a Nun, "Christ being adorned by The Angels," ‘The renunciation,’ The Last Supper, The Resurrection. He gave a tender expression to some of the most powerful symbols of religious worship, but he did a picture of Christ with no face – impersonal, unreal and without answers.[br /]
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Whenever he himself got into a trouble in any matter for example he was raided or had his sculptures cast in Bronze when doing so illegal or caught smuggling currency out of the country someone was able to silent the things up for him.[br /]
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Andre-Louis Dobois in ministry of the Interior was not able to help him and a German Ambassador was also helpless. Arno, Broker – Hitler’s favorite sculptor who appealed directly to Himmler’s assistant the SS general. Henrich Muller, "If you lay a hand on Picasso (he warned them in the matter of currency) the world’s press will cause such an uproar you will leave dizzy. If Muller did not sign the document to put on end to any action against Picasso would appeal directly to the Fuhrer. Muller knew that on the Fuhrer’s orders statues from the squares of Paris had been melted down to provide bronze to cast the work of Arno Broker. And he withheld his signature. In his biography Broker recorded what Hitler said, "In politics all the artists are innocents like Parsifal. "Picasso’s friend Casagemas shot the lady he loved and then shot himself and died. The effect of this tragedy was very deep on Picasso. He had gained the emotional experience which stimulate the powerful expression of the works of the so called ‘Blue Perion’. Various shades of blue dominated his work for the next few years. He painted two death portraits of Casagemas in 1901 as well as two funeral scenes (‘Personnes on devil and Evocation’).[br /]
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• OCT. 25, 1881 Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain.[br /]
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• 1891-1892 Family moved to La Coruoa, Galicia. He began to study with his father, a painter at the Fine Arts at La Corua.[br /]
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• 1900 Returned to Barcelona where he oftenly visited cabaret of intellectuals and artists.
1901–1904 Known as the "blue period" because of the blue tonality of Picasso’s paintings a time of frequent changes of residence between Barcelona and Paris.[br /]
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•1905–1906 Moved to Paris. Marked a radical change in color and mood for Picasso. He started to paint in subtle pinks and grays, often highlighted with brighter tones and this was known as his ‘Rose Period.’ Met George Braque.[br /]
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• 1907 Picasso painted "Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon" – considered as the watershed picture of the 20th century. Began to work on the painting Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.[br /]
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• 1909 Created Cubist sculptures as paintings. The bronze bust ‘Fernande Oliver (also called Head of a Woman). Created Baboon and Young, as well as pop art objects.[br /]
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• 1911 First exhibition in the United States at Photo – Section Gallery in New York.[br /]
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• 1912 Began to work in college.[br /]
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• 1914-1918 Went to Rome, working as a designer with Sergey Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. He met a dancer Olga Koklova and married her. He made several portraits of his wife and their son - Paulo as Harleguin "The Three Women at the Spring’. Fell in love with Marie Therese Walter.[br /]
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• 1920 Continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes.[br /]
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• 1929–1931 He did a large quantity of graphic illustrations. He pioneered wrought iron sculpture with his old friend Julio Gonzalez.[br /]
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• 1932 Retrospective exhibition Shown in Paris and Zurich.[br /]
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• 1935 Birth of their daughter Maria. Marie Therese frequently portrayed sleeping, also was the model for the famous ‘Girl Before a Mirror’.[br /]
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• 1937 The saturation bombing of the civilian of Guernica Spain by Nazi Luftwaffe. Picasso respond with his great anti-war painting "Guernica".[br /]
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• 1939-1945 During the II World War death was the subject of his numerous paintings such as ‘Still Life with Steer’s Skull’ and ‘The Charnel House’. He formed a new liaison during the 1940s with the painter Francois Gilot who born him two children. She appeared in his many works that recapitulated his earlier styles. The last of Picasso’s companions to be portrayed was Jacqueline Roque, whom he met in 1953 and married in 1961. Then he spent much of his time in southern France. He completed a welded steel maquette (model) for the 18.3 – m. (60.ft.) sculpture. Head of a woman (unveiled in 1967) for Chicago’s Civic Center.[br /]
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• 1968 He created an amazing series of 347 engravings, restating earlier themes : the circus, the restating earlier themes : the circus, the bullfight, the theater and lovemaking.[br /]
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• 1971 His work was exhibited at the Louvre in Paris honoring him on his 90th birthday.
1973 He died in his villa Notre-Dame-de-Vie Mougins on 8th April. [br /]
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• 1980 A major exhibition of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[br /]
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• 1891-1892 Family moved to La Coruoa, Galicia. He began to study with his father, a painter at the Fine Arts at La Corua.[br /]
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• 1900 Returned to Barcelona where he oftenly visited cabaret of intellectuals and artists.
1901–1904 Known as the "blue period" because of the blue tonality of Picasso’s paintings a time of frequent changes of residence between Barcelona and Paris.[br /]
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•1905–1906 Moved to Paris. Marked a radical change in color and mood for Picasso. He started to paint in subtle pinks and grays, often highlighted with brighter tones and this was known as his ‘Rose Period.’ Met George Braque.[br /]
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• 1907 Picasso painted "Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon" – considered as the watershed picture of the 20th century. Began to work on the painting Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.[br /]
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• 1909 Created Cubist sculptures as paintings. The bronze bust ‘Fernande Oliver (also called Head of a Woman). Created Baboon and Young, as well as pop art objects.[br /]
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• 1911 First exhibition in the United States at Photo – Section Gallery in New York.[br /]
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• 1912 Began to work in college.[br /]
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• 1914-1918 Went to Rome, working as a designer with Sergey Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. He met a dancer Olga Koklova and married her. He made several portraits of his wife and their son - Paulo as Harleguin "The Three Women at the Spring’. Fell in love with Marie Therese Walter.[br /]
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• 1920 Continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes.[br /]
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• 1929–1931 He did a large quantity of graphic illustrations. He pioneered wrought iron sculpture with his old friend Julio Gonzalez.[br /]
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• 1932 Retrospective exhibition Shown in Paris and Zurich.[br /]
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• 1935 Birth of their daughter Maria. Marie Therese frequently portrayed sleeping, also was the model for the famous ‘Girl Before a Mirror’.[br /]
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• 1937 The saturation bombing of the civilian of Guernica Spain by Nazi Luftwaffe. Picasso respond with his great anti-war painting "Guernica".[br /]
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• 1939-1945 During the II World War death was the subject of his numerous paintings such as ‘Still Life with Steer’s Skull’ and ‘The Charnel House’. He formed a new liaison during the 1940s with the painter Francois Gilot who born him two children. She appeared in his many works that recapitulated his earlier styles. The last of Picasso’s companions to be portrayed was Jacqueline Roque, whom he met in 1953 and married in 1961. Then he spent much of his time in southern France. He completed a welded steel maquette (model) for the 18.3 – m. (60.ft.) sculpture. Head of a woman (unveiled in 1967) for Chicago’s Civic Center.[br /]
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• 1968 He created an amazing series of 347 engravings, restating earlier themes : the circus, the restating earlier themes : the circus, the bullfight, the theater and lovemaking.[br /]
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• 1971 His work was exhibited at the Louvre in Paris honoring him on his 90th birthday.
1973 He died in his villa Notre-Dame-de-Vie Mougins on 8th April. [br /]
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• 1980 A major exhibition of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[br /]
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• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.[br /]
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• Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds ?[br /]
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• Computers are useless, they can only give you answers.[br /]
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• Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.[br /]
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• Give me a museum and I'll fill it.[br /]
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• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.[br /]
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• We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.[br /]
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• When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself. Yourself is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.[br /]
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• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit !... I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.[br /]
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• Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.[br /]
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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.[br /]
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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.[br /]
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• Bed artists copy. Good artists steal.[br /]
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• There are only two types of women -- goddesses and doormats.[br /]
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• He would rather see a woman die, than see her happy with another man.[br /]
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• Good taste is the enemy of creativity.[br /]
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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.[br /]
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• There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.[br /]
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• When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the poor." Instead I become a painter and wound up as Picasso.[br /]
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• Everything you can imagine is real.[br /]
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• I do not seek. I find.[br /]
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• Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.[br /]
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• Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.[br /]
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• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.[br /]
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• To finish a work? To finish a picture ? What nonsense ! To finish is means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.[br /]
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• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?[br /]
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• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.[br /]
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• Youth has no age.[br /]
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• Last word of Pablo Picasso "Drink to me."[br /]
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• Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds ?[br /]
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• Computers are useless, they can only give you answers.[br /]
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• Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.[br /]
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• Give me a museum and I'll fill it.[br /]
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• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.[br /]
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• We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.[br /]
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• When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself. Yourself is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing.[br /]
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• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit !... I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.[br /]
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• Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.[br /]
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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.[br /]
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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.[br /]
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• Bed artists copy. Good artists steal.[br /]
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• There are only two types of women -- goddesses and doormats.[br /]
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• He would rather see a woman die, than see her happy with another man.[br /]
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• Good taste is the enemy of creativity.[br /]
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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.[br /]
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• There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.[br /]
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• When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the poor." Instead I become a painter and wound up as Picasso.[br /]
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• Everything you can imagine is real.[br /]
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• I do not seek. I find.[br /]
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• Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.[br /]
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• Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.[br /]
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• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.[br /]
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• To finish a work? To finish a picture ? What nonsense ! To finish is means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.[br /]
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• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?[br /]
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• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.[br /]
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• Youth has no age.[br /]
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• Last word of Pablo Picasso "Drink to me."[br /]
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Picasso never completely disassociated himself from the women who had shared his life once a new lover occupied his attention. His work is the evidence. One mistress often turned into another. He expressed for all time his completely divided vision of woman who was in his mind or life. For example, "Two Sisters" the painting of a whore and nun. He spent his time sleeping, watching with Dona Maria and was painting whores. Two of the smaller nude drawings he would keep for his private collection. On one of them he had written "Cuando tongas ganas de joder, jode". In his struggle to define himself a man just seemed the most appropriate emotion toward women.[br /]
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In August 1904 in Paris while going to his studio he met Fernande a beautiful woman. He took her to see his studio. He thought that it was not just another encounter but in fact the beginning of his first real relationship. First time in his life he committed himself for a woman – "not till death do us part" – but at least until the attachment stopping being passionate, inspiring or convenient.[br /]
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Fernande Olivier was a artist. She painted and drew but preferred to expand her creativity in inventing a life. She entered in Picasso’s world and became his first official mistress. He loved the way she looked, the way she dressed.[br /]
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Fernande was four months elder to him. Picasso had a fear and anxiety prompted by the challenge and the expectation of a real relationship. His fears persisted in his painting "Woman Sleeping’. He painted himself sitting by the bed, lost in anxious thoughts and imaginings. In his daily life Picasso was very much anxious that she must be with him all the time. He didn’t care if she cooked or not, cleaned the house or not. He positively prohibited her to do the shopping. He forced her to live like a recluse. Her youthful idleness and uncontrolled sensuality were the cornerstone of their relationship. Her healthy optimism was a remedy to his depressions. Picasso who visited whorehouses regularly in search of women and thought only for himself became a man for whom Fernande. Rose became the dominant color in his work.[br /]
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In 1911 he fell in love with Marcelle Humbert who lived with Marcoussis for the past three years. His waning attachment to Fernande was replaced by Marcelle. When the distance between Fernande and Picasso became too much for her to bear, she left Picasso and surrendered to Ubaldo Oppi – a young Italian painter. Within twenty-four hours of Fernande’s leaving him he drove Marcelle away from Marcoussis. She moved to him and he renamed her Eva. In 1915 she was suffering from tuberculosis and had a fear that if Picasso knew it he would leave her. Eva was hospitalized and his affair began with Gaby Lespinasse a twenty seven year old Parisian who was his neighbor. On December 1915 Eva died.[br /]
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Jane Cocteau a young poet decided to bring Picasso into Sorgei Diaghilev’s circle. He also decided for Picasso to design the costumes and stage sets for a ballet "Parade.’ Picasso involved himself in this new project.[br /]
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In February 1917 they left for Rome. He met Olga Kokloua a 26 year old ballet dancer and a daughter of a Russian army officer. On July 12, 1918 he married Olga at the Mairie and then a religious ceremony at the Russian Orthodox Church in the Rue Daru. She was a simple and good looking. Years later he said that he selected Olga because she was pretty and belonged to the Russian nobility. In Corunna, as a boy he had been rejected by the family of his first love, named Angeles because his social status was not sufficiently dignified. A quarter of a century later he would settle that score. Whether or not Olga was the right partner for life, but she was unquestionably right partner for the social life. The great revolutionary of twentieth century art fell back in his life on the stale hope of marrying into the aristocracy.[br /]
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Olga gave a birth to son on February, 1921 who was named Paulo, the only legitimate son of Pablo Picasso. The pride and the delight of being a father inspired him to sketch the series of Paulo’s first months. Sometimes as if aware of the dramatic changes brought during a child’s first year, he recorded that date and the time also at which the drawings were done. In the Spring of 1925 ‘Three Dancers’ was born. It was the beginning of a savage decomposition of the human body and the evocation of the Crucifixion compounded the sense of boom and destruction that pervaded the picture. In realist style Picasso made several portraits of Olga. He continued working in realist style with portrait of his son and of numerous friends. He created strange pictures of small headed bathers and violent convulsive portraits of women which are often indicative to the tension in his marriage life.[br /]
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On January 1927 he met Marie Therese, a beautiful young girl of seventeen. She knew nothing of art and Picasso. In 1934 Picasso poured out his confusion and extreme pain in the four powerful moving etchings of ‘The Blind Minotaur’. The Minotaur, a symbol for himself, is being tenderly guided by a beautiful girl clutching a dove. There is an air of hopeless tragedy about the blinded beast, so strong but, so vulnerable he struggle to find his way along the seashore. The girl looks like Marie several paintings of the early 1930s expressed on underlying eroticism reflected his newest love Marie Theresa Walter. Marie frequently portrayed sleeping – also was the model for the famous ‘Jeune fille devant un miroir (1932). She became the subject of his often lyrical, sometimes erotic, paintings in which he combined intense color with flowing forms. In 1935 Marie gave birth to a girl. Olga his wife left him with her son.[br /]
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At almost exactly the same time that his daughter was born, Picasso introduced Dora Maer, a Yugoslave photographer and painter and also an intellectual of Surrealist movement. She could speak fluent Spanish and was intellectual.[br /]
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War was in his pictures – not any particular war but the darkness, the anger and the hatred that cause war. In June II World War, the German army marched into Royan where he stayed and moved from Paris because Germans threatened Paris and to stay there it was to court danger. He painted one of his most brutal and vengeful images of womanhood : Dora (his mistress) as the ‘Nude Dressing Her Hair.’ The brutality was no less present in his life. He often beat Dora and many times he left her lying unconscious on the floor. The transformation of the princess into a frog and of sensuality into horror, and in the dog face portraits he painted of Dora. He completed the transformation : of woman into slavish animal. More than two third of his work during 1939 to 1940 consisted of deformed women, their faces and bodies flied with fury. His hatred of a specific woman seemed to have become a deep and universal hatred for all women.[br /]
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In may 1943 he met Françoise Gilot-daughter of a successful businessman while dinning at Catalan, she had been drawing ever since she was a child. He invited her to see his studio to see some of his paintings. Dora knew the existence of Françoise but she could not believe that she would ever be supplanted by ‘a school girl’. She started living with Picasso in July, 1946. She was a mother of his two children – a son Claude and a daughter Ann Paloma. In 1953 Francoise left Picasso and married a young painter. Francoise’s decision to abandon Picasso as death drew closer was a symbol of life leaving him of death displacing the vitality that had always been his hallmark. He suffered alone and after November 28th, the month of his seventy-two birthday he stopped talking and started working. He worked feverishly and in just over two months he produced 180 drawings. The poet Michael Leiris called the series a "visual diary of a hateful season in hell, a crisis in his personal life leading him to question everything. In these confessional drawings he was trying to capture through his art the vitality that eludes him in life.[br /]
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In 1954, Picasso met Jacqueline Rogue who worked in al pottery shop at Vallauris. He painted ‘Jacqueline in a Rocking chair’. He had shown her not as she was but as she would soon become. He married her in 1961. She was now Madam Picasso. Marriage transformed her from victim to victor.[br /]
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On October 15, 1986 Jacqueline called Aurelio Torronte, the director of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, to discuss the final details of the exhibition of her personal selection of Picasso’s paintings that was to open in Madrid ten days later. She promised him that she would be there for the opening. At three o’clock in the morning she shot herself. She was buried in the Castle at Vauvenargues, where Picasso was also buried. This castle was purchased by Picasso in 1958.[br /]
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Marie Therese hanged herself on October 20, 1977, in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of her meeting to Picasso. She was sixty-eight years old. She wrote to her daughter Maya, "You have to know what his (Picasso’s) life had meant to her". Maya told later that their relationship was crazy. She felt she had to look after him even when he died. She couldn’t bare the thought of him alone.[br /]
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In August 1904 in Paris while going to his studio he met Fernande a beautiful woman. He took her to see his studio. He thought that it was not just another encounter but in fact the beginning of his first real relationship. First time in his life he committed himself for a woman – "not till death do us part" – but at least until the attachment stopping being passionate, inspiring or convenient.[br /]
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Fernande Olivier was a artist. She painted and drew but preferred to expand her creativity in inventing a life. She entered in Picasso’s world and became his first official mistress. He loved the way she looked, the way she dressed.[br /]
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Fernande was four months elder to him. Picasso had a fear and anxiety prompted by the challenge and the expectation of a real relationship. His fears persisted in his painting "Woman Sleeping’. He painted himself sitting by the bed, lost in anxious thoughts and imaginings. In his daily life Picasso was very much anxious that she must be with him all the time. He didn’t care if she cooked or not, cleaned the house or not. He positively prohibited her to do the shopping. He forced her to live like a recluse. Her youthful idleness and uncontrolled sensuality were the cornerstone of their relationship. Her healthy optimism was a remedy to his depressions. Picasso who visited whorehouses regularly in search of women and thought only for himself became a man for whom Fernande. Rose became the dominant color in his work.[br /]
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In 1911 he fell in love with Marcelle Humbert who lived with Marcoussis for the past three years. His waning attachment to Fernande was replaced by Marcelle. When the distance between Fernande and Picasso became too much for her to bear, she left Picasso and surrendered to Ubaldo Oppi – a young Italian painter. Within twenty-four hours of Fernande’s leaving him he drove Marcelle away from Marcoussis. She moved to him and he renamed her Eva. In 1915 she was suffering from tuberculosis and had a fear that if Picasso knew it he would leave her. Eva was hospitalized and his affair began with Gaby Lespinasse a twenty seven year old Parisian who was his neighbor. On December 1915 Eva died.[br /]
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Jane Cocteau a young poet decided to bring Picasso into Sorgei Diaghilev’s circle. He also decided for Picasso to design the costumes and stage sets for a ballet "Parade.’ Picasso involved himself in this new project.[br /]
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In February 1917 they left for Rome. He met Olga Kokloua a 26 year old ballet dancer and a daughter of a Russian army officer. On July 12, 1918 he married Olga at the Mairie and then a religious ceremony at the Russian Orthodox Church in the Rue Daru. She was a simple and good looking. Years later he said that he selected Olga because she was pretty and belonged to the Russian nobility. In Corunna, as a boy he had been rejected by the family of his first love, named Angeles because his social status was not sufficiently dignified. A quarter of a century later he would settle that score. Whether or not Olga was the right partner for life, but she was unquestionably right partner for the social life. The great revolutionary of twentieth century art fell back in his life on the stale hope of marrying into the aristocracy.[br /]
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Olga gave a birth to son on February, 1921 who was named Paulo, the only legitimate son of Pablo Picasso. The pride and the delight of being a father inspired him to sketch the series of Paulo’s first months. Sometimes as if aware of the dramatic changes brought during a child’s first year, he recorded that date and the time also at which the drawings were done. In the Spring of 1925 ‘Three Dancers’ was born. It was the beginning of a savage decomposition of the human body and the evocation of the Crucifixion compounded the sense of boom and destruction that pervaded the picture. In realist style Picasso made several portraits of Olga. He continued working in realist style with portrait of his son and of numerous friends. He created strange pictures of small headed bathers and violent convulsive portraits of women which are often indicative to the tension in his marriage life.[br /]
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On January 1927 he met Marie Therese, a beautiful young girl of seventeen. She knew nothing of art and Picasso. In 1934 Picasso poured out his confusion and extreme pain in the four powerful moving etchings of ‘The Blind Minotaur’. The Minotaur, a symbol for himself, is being tenderly guided by a beautiful girl clutching a dove. There is an air of hopeless tragedy about the blinded beast, so strong but, so vulnerable he struggle to find his way along the seashore. The girl looks like Marie several paintings of the early 1930s expressed on underlying eroticism reflected his newest love Marie Theresa Walter. Marie frequently portrayed sleeping – also was the model for the famous ‘Jeune fille devant un miroir (1932). She became the subject of his often lyrical, sometimes erotic, paintings in which he combined intense color with flowing forms. In 1935 Marie gave birth to a girl. Olga his wife left him with her son.[br /]
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At almost exactly the same time that his daughter was born, Picasso introduced Dora Maer, a Yugoslave photographer and painter and also an intellectual of Surrealist movement. She could speak fluent Spanish and was intellectual.[br /]
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War was in his pictures – not any particular war but the darkness, the anger and the hatred that cause war. In June II World War, the German army marched into Royan where he stayed and moved from Paris because Germans threatened Paris and to stay there it was to court danger. He painted one of his most brutal and vengeful images of womanhood : Dora (his mistress) as the ‘Nude Dressing Her Hair.’ The brutality was no less present in his life. He often beat Dora and many times he left her lying unconscious on the floor. The transformation of the princess into a frog and of sensuality into horror, and in the dog face portraits he painted of Dora. He completed the transformation : of woman into slavish animal. More than two third of his work during 1939 to 1940 consisted of deformed women, their faces and bodies flied with fury. His hatred of a specific woman seemed to have become a deep and universal hatred for all women.[br /]
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In may 1943 he met Françoise Gilot-daughter of a successful businessman while dinning at Catalan, she had been drawing ever since she was a child. He invited her to see his studio to see some of his paintings. Dora knew the existence of Françoise but she could not believe that she would ever be supplanted by ‘a school girl’. She started living with Picasso in July, 1946. She was a mother of his two children – a son Claude and a daughter Ann Paloma. In 1953 Francoise left Picasso and married a young painter. Francoise’s decision to abandon Picasso as death drew closer was a symbol of life leaving him of death displacing the vitality that had always been his hallmark. He suffered alone and after November 28th, the month of his seventy-two birthday he stopped talking and started working. He worked feverishly and in just over two months he produced 180 drawings. The poet Michael Leiris called the series a "visual diary of a hateful season in hell, a crisis in his personal life leading him to question everything. In these confessional drawings he was trying to capture through his art the vitality that eludes him in life.[br /]
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In 1954, Picasso met Jacqueline Rogue who worked in al pottery shop at Vallauris. He painted ‘Jacqueline in a Rocking chair’. He had shown her not as she was but as she would soon become. He married her in 1961. She was now Madam Picasso. Marriage transformed her from victim to victor.[br /]
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On October 15, 1986 Jacqueline called Aurelio Torronte, the director of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, to discuss the final details of the exhibition of her personal selection of Picasso’s paintings that was to open in Madrid ten days later. She promised him that she would be there for the opening. At three o’clock in the morning she shot herself. She was buried in the Castle at Vauvenargues, where Picasso was also buried. This castle was purchased by Picasso in 1958.[br /]
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Marie Therese hanged herself on October 20, 1977, in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of her meeting to Picasso. She was sixty-eight years old. She wrote to her daughter Maya, "You have to know what his (Picasso’s) life had meant to her". Maya told later that their relationship was crazy. She felt she had to look after him even when he died. She couldn’t bare the thought of him alone.[br /]
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