70 Facts About Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence.

Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

Picasso was born at 23:15 on 25 October 1881, in the city of Malaga, Andalusia, in southern Spain.

Picasso was the first child of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez.

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Picasso's father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game.

Ruiz y Picasso were his paternal and maternal surnames, respectively, per Spanish custom.

The surname "Picasso" comes from Liguria, a coastal region of north-western Italy; its capital is Genoa.

Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age.

Picasso's son became preoccupied with art to the detriment of his classwork.

In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria.

Picasso thrived in the city, regarding it in times of sadness or nostalgia as his true home.

Picasso's father rented a small room for him close to home so he could work alone, yet he checked up on him numerous times a day, judging his drawings.

At age 16, Picasso set off for the first time on his own, but he disliked formal instruction and stopped attending classes soon after enrollment.

Picasso especially admired the works of El Greco; elements such as his elongated limbs, arresting colours, and mystical visages are echoed in Picasso's later work.

Picasso made his first trip to Paris, then the art capital of Europe, in 1900.

Soler solicited articles and Picasso illustrated the journal, mostly contributing grim cartoons depicting and sympathizing with the state of the poor.

Picasso met Fernande Olivier, a bohemian artist who became his mistress, in Paris in 1904.

Picasso painted a portrait of Gertrude Stein and one of her nephew Allan Stein.

In 1907, Picasso joined an art gallery that had recently been opened in Paris by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a German art historian and art collector who became one of the premier French art dealers of the 20th century.

Picasso was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubism that they jointly developed.

Analytic cubism is a style of painting Picasso developed with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colours.

In Paris, Picasso entertained a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including Andre Breton, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Alfred Jarry and Gertrude Stein.

In 1911, Picasso was arrested and questioned about the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

Apollinaire in turn implicated his close friend Picasso, who had purchased stolen artworks from the artist in the past.

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Between 1915 and 1917, Picasso began a series of paintings depicting highly geometric and minimalist Cubist objects, consisting of either a pipe, a guitar or a glass, with an occasional element of collage.

Picasso included declarations of his love for Eva in many Cubist works.

Picasso was devastated by her premature death from illness at the age of 30 in 1915.

Picasso's paintings became more sombre and his life changed with dramatic consequences.

Towards the end of World War I, Picasso became involved with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Picasso took the opportunity to make several drawings of the composer.

In 1927, Picasso met 17-year-old Marie-Therese Walter and began a secret affair with her.

Yet Picasso exhibited Cubist works at the first Surrealist group exhibition in 1925; the concept of 'psychic automatism in its pure state' defined in the Manifeste du surrealisme never appealed to him entirely.

Picasso did at the time develop new imagery and formal syntax for expressing himself emotionally, "releasing the violence, the psychic fears and the eroticism that had been largely contained or sublimated since 1909", writes art historian Melissa McQuillan.

Pablo Picasso, 1919, Sleeping Peasants, gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, 31.

Until 1981 it was entrusted to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as it was Picasso's expressed desire that the painting should not be delivered to Spain until liberty and democracy had been established in the country.

In 1939 and 1940, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, under its director Alfred Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, held a major retrospective of Picasso's principal works until that time.

Picasso grew tired of his mistress Dora Maar; Picasso and Gilot began to live together.

Picasso had affairs with women of an even greater age disparity than his and Gilot's.

Picasso had already secretly married Roque, after Gilot had filed for divorce.

Picasso's strained relationship with Claude and Paloma was never healed.

Picasso was an international celebrity, with often as much interest in his personal life as his art.

Picasso was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in mid-1949.

Picasso made a series of works based on Velazquez's painting of Las Meninas.

Picasso based paintings on works by Goya, Poussin, Manet, Courbet and Delacroix.

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Picasso was commissioned to make a maquette for a huge 50-foot -high public sculpture to be built in Chicago, known usually as the Chicago Picasso.

Picasso approached the project with a great deal of enthusiasm, designing a sculpture which was ambiguous and somewhat controversial.

Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France, from pulmonary edema and heart failure, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner.

Picasso was interred at the Chateau of Vauvenargues near Aix-en-Provence, a property he had acquired in 1958 and occupied with Jacqueline between 1959 and 1962.

Picasso remained aloof from the Catalan independence movement during his youth despite expressing general support and being friendly with activists within it.

Picasso did not join the armed forces for any side or country during World War I, the Spanish Civil War, or World War II.

Picasso expressed anger and condemnation of Francisco Franco and fascists in The Dream and Lie of Franco, which was produced "specifically for propagandistic and fundraising purposes".

Picasso attended the 1948 World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace in Poland, and in 1950 received the Stalin Peace Prize from the Soviet government.

Picasso's image was used around the world as a symbol of the Peace Congresses and communism.

Picasso's output was several times more prolific than most artists of his era; by at least one account, American artist Bob Ross is the only one to rival Picasso's volume, and Ross's artwork was designed specifically to be easily mass-produced quickly.

Picasso sometimes added sand to his paint to vary its texture.

When Picasso depicted complex narrative scenes it was usually in prints, drawings, and small-scale works; Guernica is one of his few large narrative paintings.

Unlike Matisse, Picasso had eschewed models virtually all his mature life, preferring to paint individuals whose lives had both impinged on, and had real significance for, his own.

The autobiographical nature of Picasso's art is reinforced by his habit of dating his works, often to the day.

Picasso's influence was and remains immense and widely acknowledged by his admirers and detractors alike.

Since Picasso left no will, his death duties to the French state were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection.

In 2003, relatives of Picasso inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace, Malaga, Spain, the Museo Picasso Malaga.

Picasso is a character in Steve Martin's 1993 play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

Picasso refers to it as Picasso's nude of the girl with the basket of flowers, possibly related to Young Naked Girl with Flower Basket.

Picasso is played by Antonio Banderas in the 2018 season of Genius which focuses on his life and art.

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Picasso decided to part with the two paintings, which were deposited in the Kunstmuseum Basel.

On 17 May 2017, The Jerusalem Post in an article titled "Picasso Work Stolen By Nazis Sells for $45 Million at Auction" reported the sale of a portrait painted by Picasso, the 1939 Femme assise, robe bleu, which was previously misappropriated during the early years of WWII.

Picasso was married twice and had four children by three women:.

Women in Picasso's life played an important role in the emotional and erotic aspects of his creative expression, and the tumultuous nature of these relationships has been considered vital to his artistic process.

Picasso entrusted Christian Zervos to constitute the catalogue raisonne of his work .