Pablo Picasso Lots of artists have broken through barriers and accomplished an excellent art career, but none have done so quite like Pablo Picasso. When Pablo Picasso was young and in his teens, he painted realistically. Later on in Picasso's life, he started painting abstract art. Pablo was a revolutionary artist. He created modern art. Picasso, along with a fellow artist by the name of Georges Braque, developed a style of painting known as cubism. Picasso was a very valuable asset to the art world. Although other artists have left their mark on the art world, none have impacted the art world or shaped modern art as profoundly as Pablo Picasso did.
Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 at 11:15 p.m. Picasso was born at home. A midwife delivered him.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Oil on Canvas (244 x 23...
Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians (1921), Museum of M...
Pablo Picasso 1962Picasso was thought to be a stillborn, not only by his mother, but also by the midwife that delivered him. Futile efforts to revive the child were worthless. The infant was left on the table with no hope. Don Salvador, Pablo's uncle, blew smoke into the infant Pablo's nostrils hoping for a reaction. The cigar smoke produced a reaction from the tiny infant. He was alive! Even at a young age, Pablo showed an interest in art. He shared this interest with his father, Jose Ruiz. Pablo, along with his father, liked to draw and paint birds and bulls/bullrings. Picasso spent his childhood in Malaga, Spain, and his adolescence in La Coruna on the northwest coast of Spain. In 1891, Pablo and his family moved to La Caruna when he was 10 years old. While he lived in La Coruna, he attended the Institute of Fine Arts. Pablo and...