Pablo Picasso a short history of the Pablo Picasso
The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the son of a drawing master and had been something of an infant prodigy in the Barcelona art school. At the age of nineteen he had come to Paris where he painted subjects that would have pleased the expressionists: Beggars, outcasts, strollers and circus people. He learned how it is possible to build up an image of a face or an object out of a few very simple elements.
Pablo Picasso.	It may be hard to believe that both represent a human head as drawn by the same artist - Picasso, but it is a beautiful self portrait of his early days. To understand the second we must go back to our experiments in 'doodling' to the primitive fetish. The same interest in what I called formal problems could lead a sculptor such as the Swiss  Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) to turn a mere slab into a head. See painting flowers video excerpt Email us even if its just for a chat We reply to you today. <<Old master portraits Home		Portrait history Greek portraiture Peter Parlour Jan Van Eyck Leonardo Da Vinci Hans Holbein Peter Paul Rubens Frans Hals Rembrandt Van Rijn Joshua Reynolds Francisco Goya James Whistler Pablo Picasso Giacometti David Hockney

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