Pablo+Picasso

Overview
Malaga, Spain was home to one of the most influential artists in Western art. His name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Like his name, Pablo Picasso’s work was complex. His own appearance has been compared to another work of art, the Eiffel Tower. TIME Magazine described him as, “Today Picasso’s own face is leathery, seemed and wrinkled, illuminated by big dark eyes which sometimes sparkle but more often stare off into the distance. He is old and fat, but still powerful: his chest belly, bristling with white, goatlike hairs, are mahogany-tanned.” The Magazine in reference to his face points out the fact that, at times, Picasso’s art come seem unorthodox. For this reason he pioneered modern art.

Critical Issue
TIME Magazine described Picasso’s work by saying it was like, “Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches, and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men.” Pablo Picasso was known primarily for two different types of art abstraction and distortion. These elements of modern art set the standard for up and coming artists. No other painters could seem to capture these qualities with the eloquence and mystery that Picasso did. Pablo Picasso’s career was set up into many different phases. Throughout his life he went through periods such as the: Blue, Rose, and Classical. Techniques such as cubism came out of these stages. These times seemed to be a reflection of the happenings in his life; they inspired a century of art.

Conclusion/Historical Significance
Picasso remained on the art canvas well into old age. His popularity never diminished even when his hair did. The works of Pablo Picasso are scattered about the most acclaimed institutions; when they do sell prices range to $50,000, in 1950. Astonishingly, Pablo received all of these praises for his art while he was alive. For an artist, this truly is astounding. Pablo Picasso was once quoted as he asked, “What is a human face? Who sees it correctly—the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” In each of his works Picasso exemplified this very question, and posed it to each of his spectators.