A comprehensive retrospective of his work and the numerous artistic traditions it spanned, is a massive undertaking. His artworks are also coveted inclusions in private collections worldwide. Here are seven of Picasso's most famous paintings, in order of completion:.
The figure depicted -- gaunt and cross-legged -- appears exhausted as he slumps over his brown guitar. The oil-on-panel painting is from Picasso's "blue period," which saw him restrict himself to shades of blue as he explored themes of poverty and suffering. Did you know? Completed: Where to see it: Private collection. And while the figure in the oil-on-canvas portrait is clothed in blue, the background features happier shades of ochre and pink. While hardly bubbling over with joy, the boy strikes a more upbeat image than that of the downtrodden figures from the blue period.
He even wears a headpiece of flowers, with more flowers appearing in the background. Picasso painted this not long after he moved to the Montmartre section of Paris, which attracted the likes of Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Art critics were taken aback , with some not considering the painting among Picasso's best efforts. But the sale helped propel it to notoriety, securing its place as one of Picasso's most famous works. Stein's interest in Picasso's work was a turning point in his career.
In a portrait that's as imposing as its subject, "Gertrude Stein" was created near the end of Picasso's rose period. Picasso became quick friends with Stein, a writer, after he moved to Paris. Famed for her weekly salons, Stein's influence extended beyond the literary world.
Throughout the long course of his career, he created more than 20, paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and other items such as costumes and theater sets. He is universally renowned as one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the twentieth century.
Picasso's ability to produce works in an astonishing range of styles made him well respected during his own lifetime. After his death in his value as an artist and inspiration to other artists has only grown. He is without a doubt destined to permanently etch himself into the fabric of humanity as one of the greatest artists of all time.
As an artist and an innovator, he is responsible for co-founding the entire Cubist movement alongside Georges Braque. Cubism was an avant-garde art movement that changed forever the face of European painting and sculpture while simultaneously affecting contemporary architecture, music and literature. Subjects and objects in Cubism are broken up into pieces and re-arranged in an abstract form.
During the period from approximately when Picasso and Braque were laying the foundation for Cubism in France, its effects were so far-reaching as to inspire offshoots like the styles of Futurism, Dada, and Constructivism in other countries. Picasso is also credited with inventing constructed sculpture and co-inventing the collage art style. He is also regarded as one of three artists in the twentieth century credited with defining the elements of plastic arts.
This revolutionary art form led society toward societal advances in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics by physically manipulating materials that had not previously been carved or shaped. These materials were not just plastic, they were things that could be molded in some way, usually into three dimensions. Artists used clay, plaster, precious metals, and wood to create revolutionary sculptural artwork the world had never seen before.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. His baptized name is much longer than the Pablo Picasso, and in traditional Andalusian custom honored several saints and relatives. His father was a painter and a professor of art, and was impressed by his son's drawing from an early age.
His mother stated at one time that his first words were to ask for a pencil. At the age of seven Picasso begin receiving formal training from his father. Because of his traditional academic training, Ruiz believed training consisted of copying of masterworks and drawing the human form from live figure-models and plaster casts. They spent four years there where Ruiz felt his son surpassed him as an artist at the age of 13 and reportedly vowed to give up painting.
Though paintings by Ruiz still seem to have been generated years later, Picasso's father certainly felt humbled by his son's natural skill and technique. Picasso and his family were horrified when his seven-year-old sister died of diphtheria in He persuaded officials there to let his son take an entrance exam for an advanced class and Picasso was admitted at the age of just Picasso disliked the formal instructions and decided to stop attending his classes soon after he arrived. The body of work Picasso created throughout his lifetime is enormous and spans from his early childhood years until his death, creating a more comprehensive record of his development than perhaps any other artist.
When examining the records of his early work there is said to be a shift where the child-like quality of his drawings vanished, therefore being the official beginning of his career. That date is said to be , when Picasso was just At the age of 14, he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa , a striking depiction that has been referred to as one of the best portraits in Spanish history.
And at age 16, Picasso created his award-winning Science and Charity. His technique for realism, so ingrained by his father and his childhood studies, evolved with his introduction to symbolist influences. It led Picasso to develop his own take on modernism, and then to make his first trip to Paris, France. They shared an apartment where they experienced the true meaning of what it meant to be a "starving artist.
Picasso would predominately spend his working adult life in France. His work has been divided roughly by periods of time in which he would fully develop complex themes and feelings to create a unifying body of work. Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. By , Picasso had largely overcome the depression that had previously debilitated him, and the artistic manifestation of Picasso's improved spirits was the introduction of warmer colors—including beiges, pinks and reds—in what is known as his "Rose Period" Not only was he madly in love with a beautiful model, Fernande Olivier, he was newly prosperous thanks to the generous patronage of art dealer Ambroise Vollard.
His most famous paintings from these years include "Family at Saltimbanques" , "Gertrude Stein" and "Two Nudes" Cubism was an artistic style pioneered by Picasso and his friend and fellow painter Georges Braque. In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart and reassembled in an abstracted form, highlighting their composite geometric shapes and depicting them from multiple, simultaneous viewpoints in order to create physics-defying, collage-like effects.
At once destructive and creative, Cubism shocked, appalled and fascinated the art world. In , Picasso produced a painting that today is considered the precursor and inspiration of Cubism: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. A chilling depiction of five nude prostitutes, abstracted and distorted with sharp geometric features and stark blotches of blues, greens and grays, the work was unlike anything he or anyone else had ever painted before and would profoundly influence the direction of art in the 20th century.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end. His later Cubist works are distinguished as "Synthetic Cubism" for moving even further away from artistic typicalities of the time, creating vast collages out of a great number of tiny, individual fragments. The outbreak of World War I ushered in the next great change in Picasso's art. He grew more somber and, once again, preoccupied with the depiction of reality.
From onward, Picasso became caught up in a new philosophical and cultural movement known as Surrealism , the artistic manifestation of which was a product of his own Cubism. Picasso's most well-known Surrealist painting, deemed one of the greatest paintings of all time, was completed in , during the Spanish Civil War: "Guernica.
In black, white and grays, the painting is a Surrealist testament to the horrors of war, and features a minotaur and several human-like figures in various states of anguish and terror. In contrast to the dazzling complexity of Synthetic Cubism, Picasso's later paintings display simple, childlike imagery and crude technique.
Touching on the artistic validity of these later works, Picasso once remarked upon passing a group of school kids in his old age, "When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael , but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.
He was twice honored with the International Lenin Peace Prize, first in and again in By this point in his life, he was also an international celebrity, the world's most famous living artist. While paparazzi chronicled his every move, however, few paid attention to his art during this time. Picasso continued to create art and maintain an ambitious schedule in his later years, superstitiously believing that work would keep him alive. Picasso created the epitome of his later work, "Self Portrait Facing Death," using pencil and crayon, a year before his death.
The autobiographical subject, drawn with crude technique, appears as something between a human and an ape, with a green face and pink hair.
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