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Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso

2023-04-08 16:43:20Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA HEIKE MUND
Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso

50 years ago,  the genius of the century, Pablo Picasso, died. But why is he still remembered today? How much truth is there in the myth of Picasso? Following are ten facts about the painter's art and life.

How many paintings and works of art did Picasso make during his lifetime?

The numbers are different. According to estimates, the Spanish painter and sculptor created 50,000 works during his lifetime, alongside paintings and drawings, graphics, collages, plastics and ceramics.

No other artist of his generation has been so prolific, well into old age. He died on April 8, 1973, so to speak, brush in hand. This is enough for Picasso to occupy a special place in the history of new art.

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso

How old was Picasso when he made his first painting?

His first painting is an oil painting called Little Picador, for which he was inspired when he saw a bullfight. This happened when Pablo Ruiz Picasso had just turned nine years old. He comes from a family that was involved in art, his father was also a painter.

Pablo was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, a city where art has a centuries-old tradition. After his father taught at the art school, the materials for painting were everywhere in the house. His father saw Picasso as an exceptional child and taught him academic drawing from an early age.

Did Pablo Picasso learn the art of painter, sculptor and designer?

In 1892 the talented Pablo Ruiz was admitted to the art school of Malaga. In addition to normal lessons, Pablo draws and paints in every minute of free time and quickly qualifies to enter the classes above.

After high school he goes to the Art Academy in Barcelona, ​​a little later to the famous San Fernando Academy in Madrid. But the young painter does not like the teaching methods there. After six months, he leaves this institution and continues to learn on his own.

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
Exhibition of works by Picasso

He quenches his hunger for knowledge in museums, salons and ateliers, studies the techniques of other artists and absorbs everything that surrounds him that is related to art, literature and music.

"Picasso" abbreviation of the name of the painter who later became famous

At first he paints and puts his full name Pablo Ruiz Picasso on the paintings - Picasso is his mother's maiden name. After 1900, he puts only the abbreviation Picasso on his paintings. At this time he lives and works in Barcelona. Until 1904, when he opened a studio in Paris.

Later his surname becomes synonymous with great art and his technique of painting and drawing. At first his paintings were of strong, almost fantastic colors. The young, talented Spaniard seeks at all costs to stand out. The great ego of the artist pushes Picasso to be very productive. 

What is Picasso's full name?

Picasso comes from a bourgeois family. Picasso grew up together with his two younger sisters, in a cultured, highly educated environment. The family tradition is to give the children names that sound nice. Thus Picasso has his full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

What are Picasso's most famous works?

With the painting "Démoiselles d'Avignon" Picasso created the first painting of cubism, thus revolutionizing art. The women painted by him without clothes do not have only one perspective, but can be seen from many sides simultaneously. Even with his second work, made in 1937, Picasso set an example.

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
The painting "Démoiselles d'Avignon", the first work of the Cubist style

Shortly after the National Socialist Condor Legion's attack on the small Basque village of Guernica, he dedicates a large painting made for the Paris World's Fair to the victims of the attack. The painting that is an anti-war painting is a protest against totalitarianism. Picasso did not want to send him to Spain while the Franco regime was in force. Today, the painting is shown in the Reina Sofia Museum.

When did Picasso start making money with his art?

Through works done in the periods known in art history as the Blue Period and the Pink Period, lasting until 1904, Picasso became increasingly popular in Paris. In 1906 he met the most famous French artist of that time, Henri Matisse. Matise gives him the opportunity to make many contacts. Among them with Ambroise Vollar. He buys all of Picasso's paintings of the Pink Period, which makes Picasso for the first time stop thinking about money. Later the art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a famous man in the art world, makes Picasso the most expensive painter of the 20th century.

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
One of Picasso's 1228 sculptures

Kahnweiler is also brokering the sale of Picasso's most important work, the large-format painting "Les Démoiselles d'Avignon". In addition to signing the contract with Picasso, this zealous German-French gallerist also signed contracts with the painters George Braque, Juan Gris and Ferdinand Léger and as a reward asked them not to participate in the official exhibitions of the Paris salons. Finally Picasso is able to have a new apartment and undertake long journeys.

How much is Picasso's most valuable painting?

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
"Les Femmes d'Alger"

During an auction in New York in 2015, a record figure was reached for a Picasso painting of 179.4 million dollars. The large-scale painting "Les Femmes d´Alger", (Albanian: Women of Algiers) that the Spanish painter painted in 1955, was bought by the auction house, Christies.

How old was Picasso when he painted his last work?

Picasso reached almost biblical age when it comes to the age of artists. Even at the age of 90, Picasso continued to be active as a painter and designer. He died on April 8, 1973, at his villa Notre-Dame-de Vie on the Côte Azur at the age of 91.

In the last years of his active life as a painter, Picasso devoted himself more to the small, delicate forms of frozen-life paintings and the interior decoration of his penultimate home, the Villa Californie in the south of France.

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
Picasso with his daughter Paloma

He lived there withdrawn from the world, together with his second wife, Jacqueline, and daughter Catherine. He had long been cut off from the buzzing art scene in Paris and other international art centers that hail Picasso as the genius of the century.

What did Picasso leave to his heirs and descendants?

Immediately after Picasso's death, legal disputes broke out between the heirs. His family relationships are complicated: Picasso was officially married twice, but he also had children with other women. The children born from the relationship with Françoise Gilot, the photographer Claude Picasso and the designer Paloma Picasso, as well as the grandson who is the son of Picasso's legitimate son, Paulo Picasso (1921-1975), quarreled a lot about their shares in the large inheritance .

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
Picasso with his family

In 1976, the material wealth left behind by the artist and millionaire Pablo Picasso was estimated at 3.75 billion francs (about 669 million euros). This includes Picasso's houses, lands, studios, real estate and private collection of valuable paintings by painters he was friends with, or liked, such as Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Cezanne, van Gogh.

The artistic legacy that the Spanish painter left after his death was estimated at around 1.275 billion francs. It contains 1,885 paintings, 7,089 drawings, 19,134 graphics, 3,222 ceramics, 1,228 sculptures and objects, as well as 175 drawing books with about 7,000 drawings that Picasso made in preparation for major works.

Genius of the century: 10 facts about the art and life of Pablo Picasso
Picasso Museum, Antibes, France

The huge inheritance tax of several million was paid to the French state by the heirs in part with the artist's works of art. These paintings, drawings and sculptures were used as the basis to create the Picasso museum opened in 1985 in Paris, an attractive place for visitors from all over the world. /DW

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