Picasso knew how to sell himself, but despised fame Pablo Picasso once said: "Artist is a person who paints what you can sell. A good artist is a person who sells what he paints. It took Picasso quite some time to become famous and marketable. He tried to "conquer Paris" several times: he failed , became disappointed , gave up , left , but then made a new attempt. Right , the artist was favored by Ambroise Vollard , and over time , gained influential patrons , Gertrude and Leo Stein , but for the most part , Picasso had to make his own way in the world.
Yet , he never tried to become someone the public wanted him to be and to create "pretty" paintings. And when Picasso finally achieved popularity , he was not afraid to continue his creative search and experiments. The old guitarist. Queen Isabo. A table in a cafe Bottle of Pernod. Harlequin with mirror. Man with Lollipop. Portrait of the artist, in imitation of El Greco. Rembrandtesque figure and Cupid. Picasso radically changed the style of his work several times during his long creative career.
Perhaps this also became part of his secret of "eternal youth. Artists understand this well and would gladly get rid of their manner , which they already consider a template. But this requires too much effort , new hardships , doubts , and uncertainty — those who once experienced "the delights of creativity", would never be tempted by them again. They prefer to "work" under the template created before , just to be calm and absolutely confident in the results — they are lucky enough to be the only ones who know that they are no longer creators.
Miles Unger said that the artist hated the sycophants and hypocrites who came to him as if on pilgrimage to "kiss the ring of the genius. Pablo Picasso wearing a cowboy hat and holding a revolver given to him by Gary Cooper.
Picasso was ruthless with himself In , being interviewed by the writer Giovanni Papini , Picasso said: "Today , as you know , I am famous , I am rich. Great painters are people like Giotto , Titian , Rembrandt , Goya. I am only a public entertainer who has understood the times and has exploited as best he could the imbecility , the vanity and the greed of his contemporaries.
Mine is a bitter confession , more painful than might seem , but it has the merit of being sincere. Sitting man Pablo Picasso. Art critic Jonathan Jones wrote in The Guardian about every single work by Picasso being an illustration of some specific episode of his biography. Sometimes it is quite obvious , like portraits of wives , mistresses and friends. Sometimes it is encrypted or symbolic. His art has always been self-exposing , and often even self-recriminating. Picasso never gave himself too much credit or tried to show himself in the best light possible.
His whole life is spread out before the viewer — passions and fears , love and hate , admiration and envy. In the last years of his life , he often painted himself: not the venerable gray-haired thinker , but a short grotesque old man , dressed in the costume of a musketeer and comically trying to play the familiar role of the ladies' man.
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If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope,'" he later recalled. Though he was a relatively poor student, Picasso displayed a prodigious talent for drawing at a very young age. Picasso's father began teaching him to draw and paint when he was a child, and by the time he was 13 years old, his skill level had surpassed his father's. Soon, Picasso lost all desire to do any schoolwork, choosing to spend the school days doodling in his notebook instead.
I could have stayed there forever, drawing without stopping. In , when Picasso was 14 years old, his family moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he quickly applied to the city's prestigious School of Fine Arts. Although the school typically only accepted students several years his senior, Picasso's entrance exam was so extraordinary that he was granted an exception and admitted. Nevertheless, Picasso chafed at the School of Fine Arts' strict rules and formalities, and began skipping class so that he could roam the streets of Barcelona, sketching the city scenes he observed.
However, he again became frustrated with his school's singular focus on classical subjects and techniques. Inspired by the anarchists and radicals he met there, Picasso made his decisive break from the classical methods in which he had been trained, and began what would become a lifelong process of experimentation and innovation. Picasso remains renowned for endlessly reinventing himself, switching between styles so radically different that his life's work seems to be the product of five or six great artists rather than just one.
Of his penchant for style diversity, Picasso insisted that his varied work was not indicative of radical shifts throughout his career, but, rather, of his dedication to objectively evaluating for each piece the form and technique best suited to achieve his desired effect. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
Art critics and historians typically break Picasso's adult career into distinct periods, the first of which lasted from to and is called his "Blue Period," after the color that dominated nearly all of his paintings over these years. At the turn of the 20th century, Picasso moved to Paris, France — the center of European art — to open his own studio. Lonely and deeply depressed over the death of his close friend, Carlos Casagemas, he painted scenes of poverty, isolation and anguish, almost exclusively in shades of blue and green.
In contemplation of Picasso and his Blue Period, writer and critic Charles Morice once asked, "Is this frighteningly precocious child not fated to bestow the consecration of a masterpiece on the negative sense of living, the illness from which he more than anyone else seems to be suffering? By , Picasso had largely overcome the depression that had previously debilitated him, and the artistic manifestation of Picasso's improved spirits was the introduction of warmer colors—including beiges, pinks and reds—in what is known as his "Rose Period" Not only was he madly in love with a beautiful model, Fernande Olivier, he was newly prosperous thanks to the generous patronage of art dealer Ambroise Vollard.
His most famous paintings from these years include "Family at Saltimbanques" , "Gertrude Stein" and "Two Nudes" Cubism was an artistic style pioneered by Picasso and his friend and fellow painter Georges Braque.
In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart and reassembled in an abstracted form, highlighting their composite geometric shapes and depicting them from multiple, simultaneous viewpoints in order to create physics-defying, collage-like effects. At once destructive and creative, Cubism shocked, appalled and fascinated the art world.
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