Picasso Pablo

Picasso was born in the city of Malaga, the Anadalusian province of Spain. Pablo showed an early talent for drawing. The “blue” period includes works created between 1901 and 1904. Gray-blue and blue-green deep cold colors, the colors of sadness and despondency, are constantly present in them. The “Rose Period” is characterized by more cheerful tones - ocher and pink, as well as stable themes of images - harlequins, traveling actors, acrobats ("Family of Comedians" (1905), "Acrobat and the Young Harlequin" (1905), "The Jester" (1905). In Picasso's "cubic" period, several stages are distinguished. "Cézanne" cubism, presented in the works “Can and Bowls” (1908), “Three Women” (1908), “Woman with a Fan” (1909) and others, is characterized by “Cézanne” tones - ocher, greenish, brown, but more blurred, cloudy and the use of simple geometric shapes from which the image is built. In the spring of 1917, the poet Jean Cocteau, who collaborated with Sergei. Diaghilev, invited Picasso to make sketches of costumes and scenery for the future ballet. The artist went to work in Rome, where he fell in love with one of the dancers of Diaghilev’s troupe, Olga Khokhlova. They got married in 1918, and in 1921 their son Paul was born. Beginning in the 1930s, such a key theme and image for him appeared in Picasso’s work. bull, Minotaur. The artist creates a number of works with this character ("Minotauromachy", 1935), while Picasso interprets the myth of the Minotaur in his own way. For Picasso, the bull, the Minotaur are destructive forces, war and death. In the 1950s, Picasso painted various variations on the themes of famous masters - Velazquez, Goya, Manet in a free, scandalous cubist style: "Girls on the Banks of the Seine. After Courbet" (1950, Kunstmuseum, Basel), "Algerian Women. After Delacroix" (1955), "Las Meninas. After Velazquez" (1957), "Luncheon on the Grass. After Manet" (1960). Picasso's work radically influenced the development of art and culture throughout the 20th century. And at world auctions, more and more, as yet little-known works of the famous master from his vast heritage are still being found and put up for sale.