wrote by : Meray Mahmoud
last update : 15/ 12/ 2015
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso his full name is lived from 1881 to1973.” One of the greatest
artists in the 20th century” this is how the Spanish expatriate.
Picasso’s paintings were not the only thing that he was famous for, but he also
was a sculptor, print marker, and ceramicist and stage designs. There are different people who
effected on his painting like Cézanne, his father who give him the first lesson in
art, the women that he knew during his life, moreover that, his children. All
of them played a remarkable role in his
paintings. As any other artist Picasso also have different reputation during
his life. Reputation mean how
people see specific person and how they judge him according to his character
and past behavior. Picasso
finished his first painting when he was nine and when he was fifteen he
finished his first communion which was well known portent putting his father,
mother and his sister. We will discuss Pablo’s different reputations,
evidences, paintings and his impact on the modern art. (Pablo Picasso Biography, p. 1,
2)
First, Pablo Picasso had different reputations in different
times and criticized by different people. Picasso known for fame, women and
money. The first reputation represent
him in a positive image as a talented, skilled,
and genius artist. Second, he was known of his women and love a fair
with his model. At first, model found themselves damaged forever by the
experience of being his partner in the way he represents them in his paintings
like he criticized of one of his most
famous painting is “Les Demoiselles D’Aignon” that was shock for the audience, and people thought it
should look more professionally and realistic. Second, his in effected by the bull, that we can see it in
many paintings, deferent shapes and
deferent situations, it could be
understanding that he is Spanish person,
but his paintings with bull start to change like the painting ‘
Minotaurs’. However, now and for
the first time people who knew him best; told the story of those women, gave a
new insight into the artist and his work.. Before that painting we can see his
reputation at that time, when “Eren Apollinaire, who had become one of
Picasso’s admirers, and Georges Braque, when Picasso had only known fort short
time, rejecting the painting at first because they just did not understand it,
the thought that he had been overcome by some ‘dreadful loneliness’ and were
even afraid that, like De rain, he would end up ending himself in his own
studio”. Other point is the British critic John Berger wrote a book about
Picasso economic motives and speculated about his inflated public
reputation.(The Success and Failure of Picasso [1965]). The history is full of evidence which with
and against Picasso we will discuss in the next paragraph.
Second,
there are several evidences that shows Picasso’s reputations like Journal, books and biography videos
that contains his friends and his wives that talked about him. Historians who talked about him and
his paintings are John Richardson Picasso’s friend said “when the women in
Picasso’s life change everything else change, the poet change the circle of
friends change, the house change everything changes with the mistress, and I
watch this happen”. Other evidence is from one of Picasso’s wife called
Francoise Gilot from (1944_ 1953) she said “in each period, in fact with each
different woman, he had a sort of leitmotif; like in Wagner you can hear it in
his work, the leitmotif that introduced each chapter. And you can see it in
Picasso so my own motif was always the blue and green”. Third evidence is to Pepe Karmel (PHD p professor, New York
University) said “money, women, and fame but that wasn’t why he wasn’t
important, the most important because he made amazing art, art is transform the
20 century. Temma Kaplan PH, MA professor of history, Rutgers University “even
as young man he has his reputation being able to take any bodies, form or
panting and transform it into Picasso”. However, as any evidences that have their strong and weakness, like the
first evidence. The best evidence that could be the stronger than any other
evidences is the paintings from the artist itself, or to people who were close
to him both Richardson and Picasso’s wife could be a very strong resource
because they came from someone who knew him the best, lived with him and they
are an eye witness
of what happen during his life. But also they can’t be an objective enough as have a close
relationship with Picasso “friend and wife”. Other
point is that, if we want to make a fair judgment about these different resources we have to be objective not subjective when we talk about the person, we have to question our own motives, and remember that we are not Spanish
or French, we also do not have biased to one opinion. Important point is that nowadays scholar became aware of the important of being an objective and in
giving a reliable judgment in something like Maybe Dr Pep is not an eye witness of
Picasso’s life as the other sores but as scholar he gained his knowledge that
helped him in studying Picasso’s life
from a reliable books and becoming an objective, so he based his knowledge on
them he also became a strong source who talked about Picasso.
Pablo Picasso had different jobs but what he
is most famous for was
his paintings. There are different periods in Picasso’s paintings the first
starting from the movement
of classic to impressionism to period which started in 1901 featuring with two colors blue and
green and began of this period is the death of his friend
Casagemas when he killed himself this period known as the blue period. The
colors of this stage represents the cold and the sadness on the death of his
friend and example of this period is ‘’The Old Guitarist’’ and ‘’Blue nude’’
(Pablo Picasso Genius of the Century, p15,16,18). The second period is the Ruse
period (1904-1906), in this period Picasso used brighter colors and became more
optimistic. One of the reasons of this period is that he met Fernande Olivier,
a bohemian artist who became his lover. This period characterized when the
American collectors Leo and Gertrude
notice Picasso Painting and became his patron, he took his painting and exhibited
them in informal salon as a result Picasso financial his fame in increase and his
situation became better and with his relationship with Olivier Picasso became a
period of delightful and that impact on his painting like ‘’Girl in a Chemise’’, but not only on
the colors of his painting but also the content of the painting and for the
first time Picasso developed stylistic means that would become part of his
style, like acrobats and their families
specially when he discover the ‘Medrana’
circus and spending hours chatting with the clowns like in painting
‘’Family of Acrobats’’ with Monis key (Pablo Picasso’s Rose Period-p,4),( Pablo
Picasso Genius of the Century, p. 20) .The third period the African period
which started in early 1900s. The beauties of African sculpture inspired
Picasso’s painting and sculpture. The most famous painting from that period is
(head of a woman, standing man and nude). Also from that period Picasso’s moved
to the most important period in his life is the cubism period that created by
Picasso and his friend Georges Braque in 1912.The masterpiece of this period
and the first and most famous painting
in this period was ‘Les Demoiselles
d’Avignon’, other paintings was famous
also ‘Guernica’, weeping Women’ (Pablo Picasso Genius of the Century, p.
33-37). It is impertinent to mention
that he kept challenging the value in
different with more than women he knew 7 women and only married only 3 time
only, the will known, his relationship with the seventeen years old
‘Marie-therese Walter’ while he married to another one , which mean he did not
just go against the value of his society and the religious of his society (
Pablo Picasso’s Love Affair With women, p 13). Moreover, ways of his society ‘Minotaurs’
which basically half man half
bull, or like’ nude women in a res armchair’
which gain for him both reputation and fame. (Pablo Picasso’s Cubism
Period, p.2)
Fourth, although so many artists impact on
him and they were his paintings, but Picasso did not try to imitate
impressionistic which a type of painting made by Monet, or found studying and coping other artists are
boring. Picasso said “we were trying to go to the opposite direction from this
why abandoned colors, emotions, and feelings” this is why Picasso and his
friend Georges Braque. We can move from classic to impressionism to say that
they made a new technique, and he impacted the development of modern and
contemporary art which made the cubism that played the main role in development
of modern art because it provided a new and various way of seeing his paintings. In addition cubism did not left affects on
paintings only, but also influence of it, is still be felt today like in the
architect ‘ Guggenheim’ museum in (Bilbo, Spain) that inspired by Picasso’s
Painting ‘Le Jourur de guitar. This is way Picasso call the father of cubism
and the god finder of cubism also
(A Retrospect of How Pablo Picasso
Changed the World,p3).
Conclusion, Picasso’s life is raising as a hero in the world of art. He
exposure too many reputations and criticism because of his paintings and his
women, that were in his life. We could see that his relationship with them and
his thoughts through his paintings. Picasso had differentiates in his paintings
from other artists that came before and made him exposed to more criticize, but
our views changed through time and the way we looked at him
and his paintings.
Work Citations:
1) (Warncke, 1881-1973),
Pablo Picasso, london, Taschen
2)
(Walther,1881-1973), Pablo Picasso Genius of the Centry, New
York, BARNES &
NOBLE.
3) Pablo Picasso
Biography (www.pablopicasso.org/picasso-biography.jsp)
4) Pablo Picasso,
Marilyn McCully (www.britannica.com/bigraphy/Pablo-Picasso)
5) PappasArtas. “Pablo
Picasso-Masters of the modern Era-Documentary for educational purposes only” Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube,
10.12.2015. Web. 15. 2015
6) Donisa Savva.
“Picasso love, sex and art BBC Documentary 2015 [full episode}
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