Monday, August 3, 2009

Pablo Picasso's Art Career & Most Famous Paintings

By Tom Gurney

Pablo Picasso was immediately entered into the art world at a very young age by his father who quickly realised his talent and set about helping him to achieve his potential. He was rushed into the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the tender age of 14 and progressed quickly.

The Blue and Rose Period represents Picasso's key periods from 1900 to 1906. The subjects of Picasso's paintings during his appropriately-titled blue period were symbolised as depressed and sad, or at least at the point of their capture in the paintings of Picasso. This period was superceded by a more positive reflection of subjects during Picasso's Rose Period which used a more pink set of tones.

Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and George Braques all became friends of Pablo Picasso after he moved to the capital of arts, Paris, in 1904. Here Picasso was introduced to new art movements by its very influences, such as French Fauvism and Picasso.

Cubism was created by Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris, after the legacy of Paul Cezanne started to take effect. Its use of geometrical shapes is still popular today, and remains Picasso's biggest legacy.

Picasso's art was enveloped by a symbolic style as shown in his works "Guernica", "Dying horse" and "Weeping woman". Guernica represented the Spanish Civil War air-attack in suitable barbarity and was shown at the Paris World's Fair in 1937.

Guernica was stored in the museum of Modern Art, New York up until 1981. Picasso allowed it to return to Spanish's shores after the end of Fascist rule, and it was taken to the Prado Museum and the Queen Sofia Center of Art in Madrid.

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