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With thanks to the public libraries
in Concord and Warner, New HampshireT.K.

Who Was Pablo Picasso?

If you think about modern art, Picasso is probably the first name that pops into your head. Art today wouldnt be the same without him!

Pablo Picasso had a very long and interesting life. He lived through two world wars, the invention of electricity, telephones, radio and TV, movies, automobiles, and airplanes. As the world changed, he was able to change with it.

Picasso made all kinds of art and plenty of it. He worked hard every day for more than eighty years. Some people say he created 50,000 pieces of art! He must have had tons of energy.

He made paintings, posters, sculptures in stone and metal, ceramics, drawings, collages, prints, poetry, theater sets, costumes, and more. Picasso kept thinking of new ideas. He was creative and skilled, but as soon as he mastered a certain style, hed move on. As a result, the way he painted changed more than any other great artist.

Unlike many artists, Picasso was successful and became famous quite quickly. He always knew how to attract attention. At nine years old, Picasso was selling his drawings. By the time he died at age ninety-one, he was the richest artist in history.

Through his art, Picasso sent powerful messages about politics, society, peace, and love. Because of Picasso, the dove is considered a symbol of peace. And his most famous painting, Guernica, shows the horror and brutality of war.

Picassos art could be serious or playful, childlike or realistic, colorful or dark, simple or complex. When he was a child, he could draw as well as a talented grown-up. But the older he got, the more he wanted to make art like a child.

Chapter 1

The Boy Wonder

On October 25, 1881, in Malaga in southern Spain, an art teacher and his wife had a baby boy. They named him after many saints and relatives: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Years later that baby became known as the great artist, Pablo Picasso. How would he ever have signed his whole name on a painting? It would have been impossible! So he just wrote Picasso.

Pablo could draw before he could talk. His mother said his first words were Piz! Piz! Thats baby talk in Spanish for lapiz, which means pencil. When he was really little, he liked to draw spirals. He would sometimes draw pictures in the sand.

If he drew a horse, he could start from any pointthe tail or the legand make a very good picture in one line. He could do the same with paper and scissors. Have you ever tried to do that? Its not easy!

Pablos parents wanted him to be an artist. As a little boy, he often went to bullfights with his father. Pablos first known painting was of a bullfight. He was only about eight years old when he did it. Everyone thought Pablo was an artistic geniusand they were right.

Pablo had two younger sisters, Lola and Conchita. Sadly, when Pablo was still young, seven-year-old Conchita died of diphtheria. The whole family was crushed. For the rest of his life, Pablo had a fear of death.

When Pablo was thirteen, he had his first art show. By then, his father saw that Pablo painted better than he did. So Pablos father gave his son all his brushes and paints and never painted again.

Pablo and his family moved to Barcelona, an exciting city full of artists. Pablo was accepted to the local art school where his father taught drawing. Even though he was only fourteen, Pablo skipped the basic courses and went right to the advanced ones. He amazed the teachers!

Pablos career really began when he was sixteen. He did a painting called Science and Charity. His father and sister Lola were his models. Lola was shown sick in bed. Pablos father posed as the doctor at her bedside. The painting was very realistic in style. It won a prize at an exhibit in Madrid. Pablo beat some of the best artists in Spain!

Pablos family thought he had a great future as an artist. They sent him to Madrid to study art at the Royal Academy of San Fernando. It was supposed to be a good school, but Pablo skipped class a lot. His teachers wanted him to copy other paintings and statues. He thought this way of teaching was useless and old-fashioned.

He ended up spending a lot of time goofing off in cafs. He also loved going to the famous Prado Art Museum, where he saw the work of the Spanish masters El Greco and Francisco Goya.

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