The Rise Of Pablo Picasso And The Cubist Movement

Culture and Arts

Written by TomGurney

Monday, 03 August 2009

by TomGurney

Pablo Picasso was immediately entered into the art world at a very young age by his father who quickly realised his talent and set about helping him to achieve his potential. He was rushed into the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the tender age of 14 and progressed quickly.

Picasso spent the years of 1900 to 1906 in what is referred to as the Blue and Rose Period. The Blue period involved the use of blue in most of Picasso's works to represent a negativity and sadness of his paintings and those within them. Art experts, even those who rejected his later innovative style, respected his blue period. The rose period signalled a choice of brighter pink tones over the previous blues.

Pablo Picasso became great friends with Henri Matisse upon moving to Paris in 1904 and here was introduced to French Fauvism. Other artists he met here include Joan Miro and George Braques.

Picasso's new direction led to the creation of the Cubist movement, in conjunction with other famous artists George Braque and Juan Gris. Cubism is based on construction through geometrical shapes. In later years, Synthetic Cubism was developed, incorporating various views of an object together.

Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 as a protest against an air attack during the Spanish Civil War and is one of his best known paintings, not only for its quality, but also what it symbolised. His symbolic styles were continued in Dying horse and Weeping woman.

Guernica by Picasso remained at the museum of Modern Art, New York until 1981. After that it was taken to the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain and then the Queen Sofia Center of Art, also Madrid in 1992. Picasso had prevented the Guernica returning to Spain until the end of Fascist rule by General Franco.

About the Author:

Tom Gurney covers Pablo Picasso, Cubist Art and all Picasso's famous paintings in his Pablo Picasso blog. For other artists see his Pablo Picasso paintings.

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