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I chose to write about The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso, which is an artwork that was painted with oil on a panel that is displayed in the Chicago Art Institute. It’s quite large in size to scale and appearance in relation to the framework. It appears to be cramped in the frame because it is presented on a small canvas, but it actually measures in at 48 3/8 x 32 ½. This painting may have paved the way for Picasso some may say by possibly being a pivotal moment in his life. The Art Institute of

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Picasso was one of the most influential artists in the 20th century. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France and the most well known name in modern art before the age of 50 and he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. The blue and rose periods are the earlier

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Pablo Picasso Some say he was superstitious, sarcastic, awful towards his children, and horrible to women. He could very well have been all those things, but one thing I know Pablo Picasso was a great artist. He is one of the fathers of cubism, he had an audience of at least tens of millions. No other painter or sculptor before him had the fame that Picasso had.In the year 1881 a son was born to Don Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso on the southern coast of Spain in a town called

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A variety of sources agree that Pablo Picasso can be noted as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. His father was a drawing professor at the San Telmo School of Art in Malaga, and Pablo studied under his father during his youth. In 1901, he departed away from the classical methods in which he had been trained in order to practice new styles and experiment with a variety of new art forms in Paris, France. He applied

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The echo of war resonates in the air of the countries and the hearts of the people it has affected even years after it subsides. When Pablo Picasso created the larger-than-life mural Guernica, it becomes rightly apparent that Picasso wanted it to impact the people so as to gain more support and sympathy for the Spanish Republican cause, but I am not exactly sure if he realized how relatable this painting would be for all of the wars of the future that would follow after World War II. Viewing the

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Pablo PicassoThe world should be seen by colors not just black and white. “The truth is in the eye of the beholder.”Pablo Picasso, believed that modern art was in fact, corrupting a free form type art. His statement “We all know that Art is not the truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies” Picasso was referring to his beliefs that in his eyes, a true

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Cézanne’s influence on Picasso and Matisse UoPeople StudentUniversity of the PeopleAccording to Flam (2012), Cézanne’s portrayal of nude women in his bathers series drastically changed the art world. His art not only impacted the way nude figures would go on to be depicted but it also influenced the emergence of several new styles, including cubism and fauvism (Flam, 2012). This can be seen in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as well as Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of

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The Picasso It was my first day in the United States of America, travelling all the way from Nepal to witness this amazing city. I was mesmerized by the skyline and obviously the food. I was carving for my native Nepali food and to my amazement, there are many restaurants of nearly all the cuisines. Chicago is a city with over 2.7 million residents (Wikipedia, City of Chicago), living in the biting cold weather still happy and trying to cope up with the hustle and bustle of the big city. It has nearly

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that time. Picasso was possibly the most influential artist of the twentieth century, he influence many of the styles of painting used during this time. Many artist know who he was and respected his ways and creations. Pablo Picasso was born in the southern part of Spain, in a town called Malaga on October 25th, 1881. He was given the name Pablo Ruiz y Picasso but decided to only use his mother’s last name (Picasso) because it sounded more interesting, unique and fun to pronounce. Picasso was very

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Clint StephensProf. Patrick A. GreenART 1030: 12 22 October 2015Pablo Picasso: A Father of ArtIn 1881 the world was blessed with a legend whose name and work would be known for hundreds of years. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born a Spaniard on October 25, 1881 in Málaga to “José Ruiz Blasco, a teacher of drawing at the School of Fine Arts and Crafts and curator of the local museum, and Maria Picasso y Lopez” (Charles 5). The young boy’s thirst for art was relevant at a young age as he “manifested

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