Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso showed his passion for drawing and art early in
his life. Starting at age seven, Picasso started formal artistic training
from his father. Pablo Picasso was born into a very creative family and
showed signs of following his fathers path into the artist career.
Picasso started formally studying art at the age of eleven. His father
was a very traditional artist who believed that proper training required
disciplined copying of the masters. Picasso was accepted into the
school of Fine and Applied Arts at La Coruna. Picasso started training under his father before
1890. Picasso produced oil paintings at age 13 as his first art pieces that included portraits of his
family, and later began to sell his work. Pablo Picassos father and uncle decided to send him to
Madrids Royal Academy of San Fernando which was the countrys most thriving art school.
Picasso left on his own at age sixteen and hated formal school so he quit attending them as soon
as he moved out on his own. In 1901 he moved to Paris and Picasso found Paris as the perfect
place to explore new things and during his visits in Paris he began to produce work in surrealism
and cubism styles.
Pablo Picasso main influence to venture into the art world was his father. Picassos initial
styles of art was surrealism and cubism and African influenced styles. Picasso shows different
backgrounds of how he learned the way to establish that specific work within his actual art
works. The academic realism was first displayed in his work The First Communion. His creative
styles transcend realism and abstraction, Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism.
Born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881, Picasso studied art briefly in Madrid in 1897, then in Barcelona
in 1899, where he became closely associated with a group of modernist poets, writers, and
artists. After World War I (191418), Picasso reverted to traditional styles, experimenting less
with Cubism. In the early 1920s, he devised a unique variant of classicism using mythological
images such as centaurs, minotaurs, nymphs, and fauns inspired by the classical world of Italy.
Picasso made his first trip to Paris in 1900 where he met his friend Max Jacob who helped
Picasso learn language and literature. Picasso believed in many things such as art, politics,
eccentricity which was incorporated within Picassos works. Many influences from his life helped
him with his creation of his works that he produced such as the death of his sister, the German

bombing of Guernica, joining the Communist Party and many other things he had done within
his life time.
His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics,
theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social, and amorous
messages.Pablo Picasso was recognized as the worlds most prolific painter in his time. Picasso
always moved interchangeably between different styles sometimes within
the same artwork. Pablo Picasso associated most of all his work with
Cubism and made major contributions to Symbolism and Surrealism.
Picasso eventually led to the invention of collage where he did not focus
on the idea of the picture and instead focused on the objects and signs
and used symbolism to conceive the picture as a whole. Picasso created
13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, and 34,000 illustrations
used in books. Pablo Picasso also produced 300 sculptures. And it is
believed that about 350 pieces of his works have been stolen throughout
his life. After the war in the 1940s, Picasso remained as a titanic figure
and one who could never be ignored.