1st> Pablo Picasso Biography [english vers.]

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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (born on October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain and died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France) is the foreign origin of Spanish painter, sculptor and printmaker, carvers of ceramics, and stage designer, is also one of the artists the 20th century the largest and most influential, and the creator of Cubism flow (with Georges Braque).
Picasso had a very large body, a steady job, and living legends in an appreciation of the vitality of "disturbing" Spanish openly
believe in superstition 'sombre ....' that the work would keep him alive. Nearly 80 years Picasso devoted himself to artistic production that contributed significantly and parallel with the development of modern art in the 20th century.

Life and early career Pablo Picasso is the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a professor of drawing, and Maria Picasso López. Drawing expertise from the outside appears normal when 10-year-old, when he studied in his own father in La Coruña, when the family moved in 1891. Since then the ability to experiment with what he had learned and to develop a new expression of large chance to surpass his father's ability.

In La Coruna, Picasso inherited his father's ambitions, given the model and support for his first exhibition there at the age of 13. His family moved to Barcelona in the autumn of 1895, and Picasso entered the local art academy (La Llotja), whose father had
assumed as a professor last picture. The family hoped their children would achieve success as a scholar painter, and finally in 1897 he was famous in Spain through the paintings 'Science and Charity'. At the exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid, mentioned that his father was named a distinguished physician. It was clear the capital of Spain became the next destination for the young artists to gain recognition and to meet family expectations. Pablo Ruiz should go to Madrid and entered the Royal Academy of San Fernando in the fall of 1897.

But it was not as he expected. He spent his early life growing with the stupidity around him, in cafes, on the street, in a whorehouse, until finally he found the paintings in the Prado Spain. He writes: "Museum" Painting the Beautiful '. Velázquez first class of El Greco; some extraordinary leaders, Murillo does not convince me in all these works. " Other artists will capture the imagination quite different from Picasso's career for long.

Goya, for example, an artist who copied the works of Picasso at the Prado in 1898 (a portrait of the bullfighter Pepe illo and images to one Caprichos, Bien tirada está, which shows a Celestina [pimp] examined the young adolescent's stockings). These same characters reappear when Pepe illo final settlement in a series of engravings (1957) and Celestina as a kind of voyeuristic self-portrait, especially in a series of paintings and engravings known as Suite 347 (1968).

Picasso fell ill in the spring of 1898 and spent most of the remains of year for a period of healing in the Catalan village of Horta de Ebro, in the company of his friend Manuel Pallarès Barcelona. When Picasso returned to Barcelona in early 1899, Manuel has turned into a man, adding weight, learn to live alone in the open countryside, speaking Catalan, and most importantly he has made the decision to exit from the training school of art & reject the plan his family about his future.
In fact, he began to show preference to decide the name of his mother's family, and more often signed Picasso's works, until finally in 1901 he had successfully dropped Ruiz at all.

In Barcelona, Picasso moved from the circle of Catalan artists and writers who then her eyes glanced at Paris. There he met friends who had the nickname 'The Four Cats', who was never seen in his first exhibition in Barcelona (February 1900). They are the subject of approximately 50 photocall show (in the media mix).
Picasso returned to Spain with Casagemas are heartbroken because of love. After a failed attempt to comfort Casagemas in Malaga, he then left for Madrid. To work first, Arte Joven, as editor of a new art journal. Casagemas returned to Paris and shot dead a woman he once loved and then committed suicide. Picasso was deeply shocked to hear about it. Not only lost a loyal friend, he also felt guilty for leaving at that time.

From here he gained experience profound emotional and strong material that will stimulate the expression. Born of new works that he called 'Blue Period'. Since this incident he began to spawn the works of the famous gold. Also creates new trends in art. Everything will be recalled that until all time.

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