Pablo Picasso was born October 25 1881, in Malaga, Spain; he died April 8 1973, at the age of 92 in Mougins, France. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. His father was Jose Ruiz Blasco, and his mother was Maria Picasso Y Lopez. His father was an art teacher; his passion was the paintings and art in all aspects. His father was the main reason why Pablo started to paint at an early age. Pablo started painting since he was eight years old, but he started with some
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At the age of sixteenth he already had a big talent in art, his paintings where really amazing for someone his age but he still couldn't match the old masters. To appreciate his paintings and to really notice the talent he had you have to pay close attention to all the details in the painting and to see it as a whole painting, not just different geometric figures or something else. The decision that he took when he decided to leave his studies resulted in a severe crisis for Picasso, because his education had always been guided, and his art was always getting full by his father knowledge and experiences. He became known and recognized in Spain after the exhibition of his two big master pieces, "First Communion"(1896) "Science and Charity" (1896). He noticed he won't progress in Madrid because he left his studies and no one in the school can help him, he decides to go back to Barcelona. His career begins when he decides to travel to France in 1900, when it that times France was known as the art capital in Europe. During the five first months of 1901, he lived in Madrid. In 1905 he became one of the favorites of the American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein. The older brother Michael Stein and his wife Sarah also like Picasso's works and became collectors of his work. The family Steins introduced him to Claribel Cone and her sister Etta who also was some American art collectors; who also like his works and began to acquire Picasso paintings. In 1907 Pablo decides to join the art gallery that had recently been opened in Paris by the art historian Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Kahnweiler was a German art collector that eventually became one of the premier French Art dealers of the 20th
At the age of sixteenth he already had a big talent in art, his paintings where really amazing for someone his age but he still couldn't match the old masters. To appreciate his paintings and to really notice the talent he had you have to pay close attention to all the details in the painting and to see it as a whole painting, not just different geometric figures or something else. The decision that he took when he decided to leave his studies resulted in a severe crisis for Picasso, because his education had always been guided, and his art was always getting full by his father knowledge and experiences. He became known and recognized in Spain after the exhibition of his two big master pieces, "First Communion"(1896) "Science and Charity" (1896). He noticed he won't progress in Madrid because he left his studies and no one in the school can help him, he decides to go back to Barcelona. His career begins when he decides to travel to France in 1900, when it that times France was known as the art capital in Europe. During the five first months of 1901, he lived in Madrid. In 1905 he became one of the favorites of the American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein. The older brother Michael Stein and his wife Sarah also like Picasso's works and became collectors of his work. The family Steins introduced him to Claribel Cone and her sister Etta who also was some American art collectors; who also like his works and began to acquire Picasso paintings. In 1907 Pablo decides to join the art gallery that had recently been opened in Paris by the art historian Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Kahnweiler was a German art collector that eventually became one of the premier French Art dealers of the 20th