Pablo Picasso: Amazing Artist in the 20th Century

Pablo Picasso was an amazing artists during his time. The time period he lived in was the 20th century. Some of Pablo Picasso's famous paintings were La Vie, Girl Before A Mirror, Three Musicians, Le Reve and many more.

Picasso was born on October of 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He studied under his father for one year who was an artist, he was also an professor at the school of fine arts, he worked at a museum in Malaga as a curator. After the one year of studying under his father, Pablo Picasso went to the Academy of Arts for another year then moved to Paris. He went to Paris in 1901 where he found out that it was the ideal place to practice new styles and experiment with a variety of art forms. The years he lived in paris he meat a new and important friend in Picasso life his named was Guillaume Apollinaire. At the end of the year 1904 he found a mistress her name was Fernande Olivier. She inspired many works during the lead up to Cubism. Pablo Picasso died at the age of 91 in April 8, 1973.

Pablo Picasso had many great accomplishments in his lifetime. One of those accomplishments was that he was give the Stalin Prize of Peace in 1950. The Guernica Painting was one of Pablo Picasso's most famous. Pablo created this painting when he was protesting against the bombing of the Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Pablo Picasso also inspired the Cubism Period. During the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Period Pablo started to use blue in his painting. He started this as result of when his close friend took his own life and he also incorporated a pinkish tone as a representation of him accepting that he is gone.

During Picasso's life there was more going on in the world behind him. World War II was going on. He was living in France during the time of liberation. Other artist during the life of the great Pablo Picasso was Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Penrose, and many more. In 1890 Vincent Van Gogh a famous artist committed suicide. World War II ended by the year of 1945.

Pablo Picasso lived a wonderful life between his astonishing paintings and amazing sculptures. Picasso was an amazing artist who used new styles to create beautiful pieces of art. Pablo influenced the art world but he also had other influences outside of it. Pablo Picasso will be known as an amazing artist, a political figure and someone who has introduced new styles of art that shaped the modern art and modern styles of art today.

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