Pablo Picasso

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Artist Project. Pablo Picasso.

Introduction.

For my artist project I have chosen to draw and write about Pablo Picasso as his work is beautiful. He is known for co-founding the cubist movement and for drawing in a wide variety of styles. I also chose him as some of his work does not seem to be too involved for me to draw and he is a well known artist.

The Life of Pablo Picasso.

Picasso was baptised Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito, which were the names of his relatives and saints. Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish custom. Born in the city of Malaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first born of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López. Picasso’s family was middle-class; his father was a painter who specilised in drawing birds and wild life. For most of his life Ruiz was a curator at a museum and a professer at an art college. The young Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age; according to his mother, his first words were “Piz, Piz”, a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for ‘pencil’. From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. Ruiz was a traditional, academic artist and instructor who believed that proper training required disciplined copying of the masters, and drawing the human body from plaster casts and live models. His son became preoccupied with art to the detriment of his class work.

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The family moved to La Coruña in 1891 so his father could become a professor at the School of Fine Arts. They stayed almost four years. On one occasion the father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing the precision of his son’s technique, Ruiz felt that the thirteen-year-old Picasso had surpassed him, and vowed to give up painting.

In 1895, Picasso's seven-year old sister, Conchita, died of diptheria - a traumatic event in his life.After her death, the family moved to Barcelona, with Ruiz transferring to its School of Fine Arts. Picasso thrived in ...

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