The Art Of Pablo Picasso – Cubism & Fauvism

Pablo Picasso was encouraged by his father, an art teacher, to follow him into the art scene and at a very early age it was clear that Pablo’s natural talent would take him further than his father. He joined the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the age of 14 and his father sacrificed his own art in order to help Pablo Picasso progress as quickly in his career and training as possible.

Picasso spent the years of 1900 to 1906 in what is referred to as the Blue and Rose Period. The Blue period involved the use of blue in most of Picasso’s works to represent a negativity and sadness of his paintings and those within them. Art experts, even those who rejected his later innovative style, respected his blue period. The rose period signalled a choice of brighter pink tones over the previous blues.

Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and George Braques all became friends of Pablo Picasso after he moved to the capital of arts, Paris, in 1904. Here Picasso was introduced to new art movements by its very influences, such as French Fauvism and Picasso.

Cubism was created by Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris, after the legacy of Paul Cezanne started to take effect. Its use of geometrical shapes is still popular today, and remains Picasso’s biggest legacy.

Picasso’s art was enveloped by a symbolic style as shown in his works “Guernica”, “Dying horse” and “Weeping woman”. Guernica represented the Spanish Civil War air-attack in suitable barbarity and was shown at the Paris World’s Fair in 1937.

Guernica was stored in the museum of Modern Art, New York up until 1981. Picasso allowed it to return to Spanish’s shores after the end of Fascist rule, and it was taken to the Prado Museum and the Queen Sofia Center of Art in Madrid.