Pablo Picasso Research Paper

Picasso: A Different Kind of Artist After the Renaissance, the style of the art world had become strictly realistic. By the time he was fifteen, Picasso followed this precedent: he painted like a professional who had been painting for his entire life. According to goodreads, Pablo Picasso once said, “It takes a very long time to become young.” By the time he was twenty, Picasso was embarking on a lifelong journey to do just that, and to learn how to paint like a child again. He struggled massively along the way to depict the world as he saw it, and this issue continued for many years. By the time he was thirty, Picasso found the solution to this problem: cubism. Cubism allowed Picasso to show the world as he saw it, in its abstract form.

He was born stillborn until his uncle, who was smoking a cigar in the delivery room, breathed the smoke into his face and the child began to cry ("The Artist"). He was born Pablo Blasco, and eventually took on his mother’s, María Picasso, surname. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts in Spain ("Pablo Picasso" Encyclopedia), and as a result, the young Picasso learned to draw before he could remember. This milestone was before age three, considering he could remember his younger sister’s birth when he was three. His first word was ‘piz’, short for the spanish ‘lapiz’- pencil ("Pablo Picasso" Contemporary Hispanic). When he was fourteen years old, Picasso was accepted and enrolled in the School of Fine Arts, and later advanced to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. Not long after, Picasso “found the atmosphere at the academy stifling,” and left, returning to Barcelona to study art on his own ("Pablo Picasso" Encyclopedia). Picasso went to Paris, where he would later spend copious amounts of time working, for the first time for six months in 1900 (Stein 22). In 1901, before he turned 20, he had his first solo exhibition in Paris ("Pablo Picasso" Encyclopedia). From there, Picasso’s life became a whirlwind of popularity and admiration for his