Pablo Picasso: 13 essential works to understand or genius

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poet, ceramist, playwright and cenographer. He went on to most of his adult life in Paris, where he was visited by various artists.

Picasso was two founders of cubism and two great revolutionaries of art did not come from the XX century.

These são as thirteen essential works to understand the painter in his artistic phases

1. First communhão (1896) - Before 1900

A first phase of Picasso and before 1900. Nela found all the beautiful paintings before her year, such as nesse oil on canvas, painted when Picasso attended the school of arts. The Lonja.

The work was exhibited in Barcelona and attended by the local printing press. Ela foi feita de accord com os preceitos do realism of the end of the XIX century.

Or quadro presents his signature, Lola, during the first communhão, a solene moment of transition from childhood to adult life.

2. To life (1903) - Blue phase

To life It is one of the two most important pictures of the boy blue phase. Between 1901 and 1904, Picasso phased out works with a preferentially blue tonality and themes such as

prostitutes and babies.

The phase was influenced by a journey through Spain and the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas, who was posthumously portrayed by nesse quadro. During this period, Picasso went through financial difficulties, alternating between Paris and Madrid.

3. Gbunker à la pipe (1905) - Pink phase

Picasso's pink phase was marked by the use of lighter and lighter tons, mainly pink. During this period, which was from 1904 to 1906, Picasso resided in Paris, not on the edge of Montmartre.

A vida na região was also influenced by Picasso, who portrayed many acrobats, dancers and harlequins. It was also the time when Picasso met the writer Gertrude Stein, who became his great patrons one day.

4. Gertrude stein (1905) - Pink phase / primitivism

Gertude Stein commissioned her portrait for Picasso. She had become a close friend of the painter and one of the most important funders of his works.

The portrait of Gertude marks a transition from the pink phase to primitivism. I don't know her face we can see influence of African masks that will mark the next phase of Pablo Picasso.

5. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) - African phase ou primitivism

This painting marks or begins the phase in which Picasso cooks great influence of African arts, which lasted from 1907 to 1909.

Despite being influenced by Iberian arts, it is possible to clearly see references from Africa, Mainly in the composition of the face of the duas mulheres on the direct side of the quadro (their faces are similar to masks African).

Picasso only exhibited this four years depois, in 1916.

6. Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) - Analytical cubism phase

Picasso developed together with Georges Braque a new style of painting: or analytical cubism (1909-1912). You artists seek us "analyze" or object we seus terms in suas forms.

The color palette was monochromatic and preferentially neutral. In this work, Picasso portrayed Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, donated by an art gallery in Paris.

In this picture, Picasso changed to form portraits, breaking a tradition of more than two thousand years.

7. Cabeça (Tetê) (1913-14) - Synthetic Cubism

O synthetic cubism (1912-1919) was a development of cubism. Picasso began to use pieces of papéis as wallpaper and journals in his works. For the first use of collages in works of art.

During this period, the painter was in contact with various artists in Paris, such as André Breton and the poet Apollinaire. As Primeira Guerra, Picasso met more people, as filmmaker Jean Cocteau and composer Igor Stravinsky.

Or I contacted numerous artists from various different areas who influenced the work of Picasso, who underwent various experiments in this and subsequent times.

8. Paulo as Arlequim (1924) - Neoclassicism and Surrealism

Picasso has a very large and wide production. This portrait of his filho as a harlequim is inserted in the neoclassicist and surrealist phase (1919-1929).

As the end of the war, many European artists will search within neoclassicism for a way to "return to order." Therefore, at the same time, the artistic vanguard will continue to influence the works of two artists.

9. Dead nature (1924) - Neoclassicism and Surrealism

Essa dead nature, painted not the same as cloth Paulo as Arlequim, show versatility do artist.

Picasso passes, in a very small tempo, from a representative design to a great abstraction, following the preceitos do surrealism.

10. O Artist and his model (1928) - Neoclassicism and Surrealism

In 1925, the writer André Breton, who was a great theorist of surrealism, declared that Picasso was one of them.

Just as Picasso has not followed the precedent of surrealism, he is present at the first exhibition of the group in 1925 with cubist works.

11. Guernica (1937) - A Grande Depressão e a exposição no MoMA

Guernica is the most famous work of Picasso e do Cubism. It represents the Nazi bombings in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

During the period from 1930 to 1939, the constant figures of the Harlequin in the work of Picasso were replaced by minotaur hair. Picasso's paintings become more somber, like the use of pasteis cores.

Go to complete analysis on or chart Guernica.

12. Bust of mulher with chapéu with flowers (1942) - World War II

Picasso was born in Paris, even during the Nazi occupation of World War II. In this period, the artist did not participate in many exhibitions and received some visits from the political police of the fascist regime.

At the end of two years 1940, Picasso was never a celebrity and both his work and his personal life were of general interest.

13. Jaqueline from my crusades (1954) - Late works

From 1949 to 1973 the final works of Picasso's late works are included. Nesse period or artist já was consecrated. Many paintings are portraits of his wife Jaqueline.

He also engaged in various sculptures, including a giant structure known as Chicago's Picasso. In 1955, he was a breeder or a filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot to make a film about his life as a child. Or Picasso mystery.

A training of Pablo Picasso

Picasso was born in Malaga, in Andalusia, in 1881 and lived for ten years. Seu pai, he was a professor of development San Telmo School.

For seven years, Picasso began to host classrooms in seu pai, which proved that the technique was essential for a good artist. When Picasso was thirteen years old, he knew that he had surpassed his paintings. As this same idade, the entrance to the school of arts of The Lonja, in Barcelona.

At the age of 16, Picasso was sent to the Real Academia de Belas-Artes de São Fernando, in Madrid. As a young painter, he moved to a greater part of the time in the Prado Museum, copying great works of art or instead of frequenting the classrooms.

In 1900, at the age of 19, Picasso went to Paris for the first time, a city in which he passed most of his life. La ele conheceu and coexistence with other artists, such as André Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire and writer Gertrude Stein.

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