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Pablo Picasso Research Paper

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Many artists express their emotions through their art making and the finished art will reflect on that specific emotion. Other artists may make an image with the hope of creating an emotional response in the viewer, Pablo Picasso creates artwork that does both. Pablo is a painter, sculptor, stage designer and poet. His career was over a 78 year time period, which he created 13,500 paintings, 34,000 illustrations which were used in books and he also created 300 sculptures. Pablo was born on October 28th, 1881 in Spain, he was born into a creative family, his father was a painter and at an early age Pablo started showing his passion and skill for drawing. At 13 years old, he produced his first oil paintings, including portraits of his family and then one year later he began to exhibit and sell his work on a small scale. In 1901 he went to Paris, which he practiced new styles and experimented with a variety of different art forms. He began his work in surrealism and cubism style and then branched off into other styles.

In 1937 he created a painting after the German bombing. It was such influential piece because it showed the brutality of war and death, it really had an emotional response to others. People …show more content…

It is a painting of Marie-Therese Walter. It was painted in 1932, Marie-Therese Walter is asleep, her body resting between the two color blocks of red and green. Her hands have a claw-like figure .It shows a combination of beauty and ugliness. The second most popular painting was called “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” This masterpiece was created in 1932. The picture is again Marie-Therese Walter, it’s a painting of her head, body laying on the ground and green leaves attached to her. The painting was sold for a price of $106.5 million which was a world record in 2010. Pablo Picasso’s most famous painting was “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” which was his best selling and most known for painting

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