Picasso's Many Styles

Picasso was born on October 25,1881 in Spain. Where ever he went he would find ideas about what pictures represented to him and turned them into works of art. He received most of his talents from his father who taught at an art school. Picasso painted with many different styles which helped him become one of the famous artists ever. “He drew with in-depth coloration, which caught everyone eyes leaving everyone in “aw.”

Picasso paintings came from the new style Cubism, which changed the art world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cubism is an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes. Picasso would take an object and observe it from many different angle to design the same object in a new way. The colors gray and brown dominated this style representing the new construction of this object. Picasso cubism jump started the creation of Synthetic Cubism, which focused of the creating the object instead recreating the object with weird geometric shapes. Both forms of Cubism started fading away in the early 1920’s.

Picasso also wrote during the blue period which only lasted 3 years. The blue period represented sad times and loneliness. All of the paintings in the blue period have dark blue background with sad facial expressions on the people. Many of these paintings have people hugging each other, people about to shed tears, and depressing emotions. Experts believe Picasso started this blue period after his friend Carlos committed suicide.

While in Paris, which was the head of art during his time period he drew paintings with the African period or black period style. In 1907-1909 he would observe African sculptures and draw what each sculpture represented. Many of these paintings he replicated ended up looking pretty close to the real sculptures.

He created and drew in the Black Period, Blue Period, and cubism period. His paintings represent the many styles he could preform in. He could draw people suffering from depression, he could replicate paintings while only using geometric shapes, and he could reproduce African sculptures. Picasso painted in many diverse styles and changed art forever.

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Marrinan, Michael. "Picasso." Burlington Magazine n. pag. Web. 30 Nov 2010. .