Memories of Pablo Picasso
 Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso October 25 1881 - April 8 1973 |
Pablo Ruiz Picasso the Spanish artist extraordinare who did painting, sculpting, print making, ceramics and theatre design essentially resided in France throughout his adult existence. I always had the time to devour some magazine article back when they were envogue with the various insights into him and his art ... and he was largely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist representations of militaria.
Picasso demonstrated great artistic talents early on from his childhood through adolescent "naturalist" phase. His work underwent a lot of experimental changes during the early 20th century which I failed to recognize as bonafide art theory manifest in those philosophies and techniques he placed into the methodology of his work. I was more interested in appearances and form rather than the underlying theory and basis of that which I was viewing.
All in all he was a prolific worker throughout his life and he achieved that which many never see; accomplishment, renown, and great fortune becoming one of the best known individuals from any genre on the planet in the 20th century.
He passed 3 weeks before I graduated from high school and my appreciation of his art was nil. He is part of that which made me older and wiser as the years progressed though it was years before I had any grasp of who and what he was.