Pablo Picasso: Most Influential Artist Of The 20th Century

Pablo Picasso can be considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He was a pioneer for art styles such as cubism, realism, and surrealism. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25th in 1881. Picasso’s father was also an artist; he worked as a teacher at a school of fine arts. Growing up Picasso would watch his father paint pigeons that would be outside of his home. Sometime Picasso’s father would ask him to finish the paintings for him, which he was more than glad to do. By the time he reached the age of 13 his raw talent was that of a prodigy. Picasso’s earliest works were based off of common subjects that artist at that time trained on at that period of time. He used figure studies which were based on plaster casts as well as bullfights were of much interest to him as well.

Picasso studied under his father for a year, taking his ornamental drawing course before deciding to move to Paris. However before making the move to Paris he ended up moving to Barcelona in 1895 with his family because his father had found another job there. This turned out to be a great opportunity for Picasso because Barcelona was one of

He created the painting in the image of his mistress during the time known as Dora Maar. According to Picasso he had explained that “It was the deep reality, not the superficial one...Dora, for me, was always a weeping woman and it’s important because woman are suffering machines.” Although the art piece had a lot of meaning behind it, the reason I believe it became as famous as it did was due to Picasso’s use of cubism. Cubism was a 20th century art style that pretty much revolutionized how paintings and sculptures were made at the time. It was influenced by primitivism, Iberian, and African art. In order to successfully use cubism, the artist must break up an image and basically take it apart in order to put it