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The Artist Pablo Picasso

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The artist Pablo Picasso is quite possibly one of the most famous artists to ever live. While he was one of the greatest painters, he was also a man of many talents. He was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer. Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-founder of Cubism. His creativity, empathy, and mastery in the arts has led him to become such a revolutionary artist. He devoted his life to painting and artistic production for the simple fact of wanting to contribute to modern art in the 20th century. Picasso was born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso on October 25th, 1881 in Málaga, Spain. Picasso’s parents were Don José Ruiz Blasco and Doña María Picasso y López. Picasso’s father was a painter and art teacher. Picasso was introduced to art by his father. Picasso showed a passion and displayed a prodigious talent for drawing at an early age. His father decided to formally train him, at the age of seven, in the art of oil painting and figure drawing. Picasso was a precocious boy whose budding talent grew to overshadow that of his father. By the time he was 13.
The painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was painted by Picasso in the year 1907 and is the most famous example of cubism painting, as it is considered the first cubist piece of artwork. With this piece Picasso marked an extensive break from the traditional characteristics of painting, he abandoned all aspects of traditional art with this piece. He veered far from the representation and form often seen in traditional art at the time. He depicted five naked women prostitutes in a brothel, but the women were far from realistic. Picasso had drawn them nothing like the traditional paintings of women. Their bodies were made up of flat, splintered planes rather than rounded volumes, their eyes were drawn lopsided, and their faces were off putting. With this painting Picasso did things that no other artist had contemplated at the time. This visual violent piece evokes and liberates eroticism. This piece and its unbinding desire was unprecedented in art and in the culture of that

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