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Picasso. “I paint what I know, not what I see.”. b. October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain d. April 8, 1973, Mougins, France.
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Picasso “I paint what I know, not what I see.” b. October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain d. April 8, 1973, Mougins, France “Every masterpiece has come into the world with a dose of ugliness in it. This ugliness is a sign of the creator’s struggle to say something new.” – Gertrude Stein on Picasso.
Son of José Ruiz Blasco & María Picasso Lopez Pigeons Sketch--Age 8 “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother” (1896) His father was a professor of drawing; he started studying with his father when he was 10, but by 13 it was clear to everyone that he would surpass his father.
. . . and he entered “the Blue Period” (Late-1901 to Mid-1904)
Cubism . . . A style of painting largely created by Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. Or . . . Revolutionary, 20th-century art movement. It originated in c.1907 when Picasso and Braque began working together to develop ideas for changing the scope of painting. Abandoning traditional methods of creating pictures with one-point perspective, they built up three-dimensional images on the canvas using fragmented solids and volumes. In 1908, Braque held an exhibition of his new paintings that provoked the critic Louis Vauxcelles to describe them as bizarre arrangements of ヤcubesユ. The initial experimental, ヤanalyticalユ, phase (1907-12), of which Picasso and Braque were the main exponents, was inspired mainly by African sculpture and the later works of Cezanne. They treated their subjects in muted grey and beige so as not to distract attention from the new concept. The ヤsyntheticユ phase (1912-14) introduced much more colour and decoration and the techniques of collage and papiers coll市 were very popular. Cubism attracted many painters as well as sculptors. These included Leger, Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Frantiek Kupka. The most important cubist sculptors (apart from Picasso) were Archipenko, Lipchitz and Ossip Zadkin. Although it was not an abstract idiom, cubism revolutionized artistic expression, and lent itself easily to adaptation and development. It is probably the most important single influence on 20th-century progressive art. "cubism" World Encyclopedia. Philip's, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Irvine Valley College. 23 October 2006 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t105.e2991>
“In Cubism art consists of inventing and not copying.” – Fernand Léger “Nude with Drapery” (1907)
Picasso goes on to become the most influential artist of the twentieth century . . .