Pablo Picasso

Biography

Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of 20th century art, who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time.

He was born Pablo Ruiz Picasso on October 6, 1881, in Malaga, Spain.

He was the first child of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez.

His father was an artist and professor of art at the School of Fine Arts, and also a curator of museum in Malaga, Spain.

Picasso began studying art under his father's tutelage, continued at the Academy of Arts in Madrid for a year, and went on his ingenious explorations of the new horizons.

He went to Paris in 1901 and found the environment conducive for his experiments with new art styles.

'Gertrude Stein' took a form of a "visual conversation" and exchange of their paintings with mutual respect.

After WWII he returned to "classical" style and created the "Dove of Peace".

An innovator and a multi-faceted personality, Picasso dominated the 20th century Western Art, spreading his influence beyond art into many aspects of culture and life.

In his several film appearances Picasso always played himself.

His lifestyle remained as bohemian and vivacious as it was in his youth.

Picasso died in style while entertaining his guests at a dinner party, on April 8, 1973, in Mouglins, in southeastern France.

Picasso's last words were "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more.

" He was interred at Castle Vauvenargues' park, in Vauvenargues, Bouches-du-Rhone, in the South of France.

Pablo Picasso's paintings rank among the most expensive artwork in the world, establishing a price record with $104 million sale of "Garçon a la pipe" in 2004.

Picasso produced over 13 thousand paintings or designs, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34 thousand book illustrations and 300 sculptures, becoming the most prolific artist ever.

Country: Spain
Gender: Male
Education: Escola de Arte e Superior de Deseño Pablo Picasso·Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Place of birth: Málaga
Birth date: 25 October 1881
Member of: Academy of Arts of the GDR·French Communist Party
Nationality: Spanish

Lenin Peace Prize

He was born at 11:15pm-LMT.
An estimated 350 of his works have been stolen, more than any other artist.
He has had more auction sales than any other artist: as of May 1999 his works had been sold 3,595 times for a total worth of $1.23 billion.
He was recognized as the worlds most prolific painter by the Guinness Book of World Records: during a career that lasted 78 years he produced an estimated 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics, making a total of 147,800 works of art.
He had one son by wife Olga, a Russian ballerina: Paulo Picasso, born 1919.
Picassos liaison with Marie-Thrse Walter produced one daughter: Maya Widmaier Picasso (aka "Maya (Maria de la Concepcion) Picasso"), born 1932. Another liaison with artist Franoise Gilot produced Claude Picasso (born 1947) and Paloma Picasso born 1949.
He is the subject of the songs "Picassos Last Words (Drink to Me)" by Wings , "Pablo Picasso" by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers (which insisted "girls could not resist his stare" and that "Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.") and "Picasso and Me" by Gretchen Peters (which is written from the point of view of Picassos cat).
A Rose Period Picasso that Gone with the Wind financier John Hay Whitney had bought for $30,000 in 1950, "Boy With a Pipe," was auctioned off in 2004 for a record $104.2 million, the proceeds left over from the $93-million bid price to fund the charitable Greentree Foundation established by his wife Betsey Cushing Whitney after his death.
He was a Communist, ironic in light of his being the worlds wealthiest artist at the time of his death in 1973, leaving an estate valued at between $100 million and $260 million ($442 million and $1.15 billion in 2005 dollars).
He was the grandfather of Olivier Widmaier Picasso.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to,understand the song of the birds?
You should have an idea of what it is you want to do . .
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog,and I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there,are others who - thanks to their art and intelligence - transform a,yellow spot into the sun.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we,grow up.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Movies

Les artistes et le parti, 1945 - 1968
2013
Picasso
1985
Picasso IS 20th century art, and his may well be the most powerful patronage through this next century.
Picasso: A Painter's Diary
1980
Picasso
1969
Picasso: Sir Kenneth Clark at the Tate Gallery
1960
Le mystère Picasso
1956
Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls.
Picasso
1955
The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.
Bezoek aan Picasso
1949
In this short 20 minute black and white Belgian documentary, the director, Paul Haesaerts, visualised Pablo Picasso’s flow of imagination when the Spanish painter drew on large glass plates in front of the camera – like a live show of a greatest artist in performing a few masterstrokes that outlines a dove, bull, flower, man or woman and whatnot.
La Garoupe
1937
Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose.

Books

Imagine Picasso
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Picasso Cut-Outs
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Picasso - el Greco
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Picasso
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Gorgeous Coloring Book for Girls
Pablo Picasso
Opposites Book for Toddler
Pablo Picasso
Drawing and Coloring Book for Kids Ages 4-8
Pablo Picasso
My Song for Trumpet
Pablo Picasso
My First Big Coloring Book
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My Song for Violin
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Picasso and Paper
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Celtic Ornament,Knot
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Shoes for Man&Woman
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My First Toddler Coloring Book
Pablo Picasso
Happy Children's Day Coloring Book
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Cute Dogs Coloring Book for Toddler
Pablo Picasso
My Song for Harp
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Animals and Flowers Coloring Book
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Monster Doodle Coloring Book
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How to Quickly Lose Weight
Pablo Picasso
Reach the Goal!
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Doodle Coloring Book for Teens
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Picasso and Paper
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Pablo picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety.
Beer,Whiskey and Fun
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My Song for Flute
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My Song for Harmonica
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My First Toddler
Pablo Picasso
Cute Teddy Bears Coloring Book for Toddler
Pablo Picasso
Teddy Bear
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Cute Birds Coloring Book for Toddler
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Picasso
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Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail
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Ovid : The Metamorphoses
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Picasso 1932
Pablo Picasso
The year 1932 was an extraordinary one for pablo picasso (1881–1973), even by his own standards.
Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Exhibition at leicester's new walk museum and art gallery of 100 works from lord richard attenborough's collection of ceramics by picasso, in their first ever public display together..
Picasso's Kitchen
Pablo Picasso
Picasso's kitchen delves, for the first time, into the relationship between picasso and cooking.
Picasso in Barcelona - 1917
Pablo Picasso
This book aims to show how picasso returned to a barcelona in 1917 after many years in paris, where he encountered a rich cultural scene, a city unlike the one he had left.
Cahiers d'Art : Picasso in the Studio : 39th Year
Pablo Picasso
The latest issue of the cahiers d'art revue is devoted to pablo picasso and the various techniques he employed, offering an exceptional, intimate look at the artist in his studio.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo picasso is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Picasso Rivera
Pablo Picasso
Published in conjunction with the exhibition picasso and rivera: conversations across time, organized by the los angeles county museum of art and the museo del palacio de bellas artes.
Picasso.mania
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Pablo Picasso e le sue passioni
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Der Zeichner
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Make a Masterpiece -- Picasso's Three Musicians
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Create a cubist work of art!
Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette
Pablo Picasso
One of pablo picasso's most important muses is the subject of this diverse and beautiful collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and ceramics.
Picasso and Spanish modernity
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Pablo PICASSO
Les Picasso d'Arles
Pablo Picasso
In 1971, two years before his death, picasso offered the reattu museum and the city of arles a collection of 57 drawings that he had produced over a 35-day period.
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Picasso de Málaga
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Intimate, revealing memoir of picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure.
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Pablo Picasso
Intimate, revealing memoir of picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure.
Picasso, die Kommunisten und das Theater
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Suite vollard comprises 100 etchings done by pablo picasso (1881-1973) between 1930 and 1937.
Picasso and the circus
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Von pablo picasso erzahlt man, er hatte zu zeichnen angefangen, noch bevor er sprechen konnte.
Picasso and Marie-Thérèse
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A compact and accessible book showing picasso becoming the most important artist in the 20th century and therefore a appreciated addition to other picasso literature..
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