Pablo Picasso (188 1 10 year1October 25th ~1April 8th, 973), Spanish painter and sculptor, French producer party member. He is the founder of modern art and the main representative of western modernist painting. Picasso is the most creative and far-reaching artist in the contemporary west and one of the greatest artistic geniuses in the 20th century.

Picasso's artistic career almost runs through his life, and his works are rich and varied. Later generations used the phrase Picasso is always young to describe Picasso's ever-changing art form. Historically, many of his works have to be divided into different periods-early blue period, pink period, prosperous black period, analytical and comprehensive cubism period (also known as cubism period), late surrealism period and so on. [1] The Maiden of avignon, which he wrote in 1907, is the first work with cubism tendency and a famous masterpiece with milestone significance. It not only marks a major turning point in Picasso's personal artistic course, but also a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of modern western art, which triggered the birth of cubism movement.

Picasso was a prolific painter. According to statistics, his works total nearly 37,000 pieces, including oil painting 1 0,885 pieces, sketch 7089 pieces, print 20,000 pieces and lithograph 6 1 piece. [2] In a poll conducted by a French newspaper in February, 1999, he was elected as the top ten painters of the 20th century with a high vote of 40%.

Early experience

Picasso was very artistic since he was a child. He can make vivid paper-cuts and create many amazing paintings. All the neighbors sighed and called him a genius. However, this "genius" is not an excellent student, and attending classes is simply torture for him. In class, he either fantasizes aimlessly or looks at the trees and birds outside the window. Picasso became the object of ridicule by his classmates.

As a bad student, Picasso has been locked up in school for a long time. There were only benches and empty walls in the confinement room, but Picasso was very happy. Because he can draw freely there with a stack of paper. With the support of his father, Picasso immersed himself in the imaginary world every day. Although his lessons are not good, he found happiness in the world of painting.

1889, Picasso completed his first oil painting "matador"; [3] 1894, the work was exhibited for the first time. From 65438 to 0895, Picasso entered the Longha Art School in Barcelona. 1897 entered the Royal san fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, and his oil painting Science and Charity won the honorary prize of the National Art Exhibition in Madrid, and later won the gold medal in Malaga.

First, the period of love

Picasso lived with seven women for a long time in his life, married two women and had four children with three women.

? 1904 Spring, Picasso settled permanently in Montmartre, Paris. As he moved to Paris to live with Fernand Olivier, his blue style period ended. Soft pink tones began to penetrate into the single blue color (model girl) on his canvas and soon became the main color (flower basket girl) on his canvas. Warm and delicate rose red replaced the empty, abstract, heavy and depressed blue.

Thus the "Rose Period" began. Picasso's oil paintings entered a brand-new world, a world on par with vagrants and acrobats, so some people called it "circus style" (girl on horseback). At this time, Picasso's popularity enabled him to come into contact with many women. In this age full of desire and desire, he rules his woman with the will of a bull (Naked Rose)

? 1906, Picasso met Matisse. He discovered the black sculpture from the master of Fauvism, became fascinated with it and absorbed its artistic essence into his works. This year, Picasso washed off the rouge on the palette and put on taupe pigment to paint a portrait for the writer Stein. The representative work "The Portrait of Stein" is a springboard for Picasso to leap from "Rose Period" to "Cubism Period", which was influenced by primitive art and paid attention to the basic form of geometry. The hand in the painting is realistic, but the face is like an indigenous mask image.

Second, the main achievements

High-yield painter

Regarding the works, Picasso said, "Every painting of mine contains my blood, which is the meaning of my painting." Among the top 10 paintings with the highest auction price in the world, Picasso's works occupy four. [4]

Means of artistic expression

Picasso's painting and style have changed several times in his life. Perhaps because of his sensitivity and precocity to impermanence and poverty, Picasso's early works are full of precocious melancholy, and his early paintings approximate the theme of expressionism. When he was a student, Picasso worked hard to learn academic skills and traditional themes, and created works with religious themes as the object of description, such as The First Eucharist.

Picasso is a seeker of ever-changing artistic techniques. Impressionism, post-impressionism and the artistic techniques of the beast have all been absorbed by him and re-selected as his own style. His talent lies in maintaining his rough and powerful personality in various variation styles and achieving internal unity and harmony in the application of various techniques. He has reached the pinnacle, and his works, whether ceramics, prints or sculptures, are like childish games. In his life, there was never a specific teacher or a specific child, but no painter who was active in the twentieth century could completely bypass the road opened by Picasso.

1973, he quietly left, and finished his 92-year-old long career and spent his whole life.

Picasso devoted his life to painting innovation, applied the achievements of modern western philosophy, psychology and natural science, absorbed the nutrition of national folk art, and created an expressive artistic language; His extreme deformation and exaggerated artistic techniques have unique power in expressing abnormal capitalist society and distorted interpersonal relationships.