50 years without Pablo Picasso

In 2023 there will be more than 50 exhibitions of Pablo Picasso's art around the world. Although Spain and France are most important to the artist's life, the art will also be exhibited in Switzerland, Germany, the Principality of Monaco, Belgium and Romania.

Pablo Ruiz Picassobetter known as Pablo Picasso, died on this day 50 years ago. A death surrounded by journalists who peeped into the house in the last days of his life. Finally ending naturally to a pulmonary edema in France. He was buried in the parks of the castle of Vauvenargues in southern France.

After the artist's curious and worryingly silent arrival into the world, art entered his life intuitively. They said it His first word was “piz, piz” thus reflecting that the little Malaga man wanted a “pencil” from his father so he could draw before he could even walk.

Picasso's extensive, questioned and studied artistic biography, is divided into different stages.

A young Andalusian born in November 25, 1881that at just eight years old he would paint View of the port of Malaga (1890). During his formative years, he also painted portraits of his relatives. portrait aunt pepa (1896) and even copied other works.

After moving to La Coruña due to his father's unstable work, Picasso continued to paint scenes from his daily life, including going to the La Coruña School of Art. Five years later, the family moved to Barcelona to cope with the death of Picasso's younger sister, shell, Who would I die with? just 7 years old old due to illness diphtheria.

Blue Stage (1900 – 1904)

In 1900 and on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition, Picasso together with his great friend, also a painter, Carlos CasagemasThey marched towards Paris. For one romantic drama unrequited, Casagemas commits suicide with a bullet in the head. It was a heavy blow for Picasso.

At this stage, Picasso's works convey sadness and abandonment. We can also see characters elongated, head down and staticrepresenting the subclasses such as homeless people, prostitutes, sick people and extremely poor families from Barcelona and Paris, who roam the neighborhood with great melancholy.

He blue color would mark the deep sadness how Picasso felt about his friend's death. Cold colors and empty backgrounds predominate in these paintings.

Two sisters (1902), The old blind guitarist (1903) and The tragedy (1903) are some of the works he carried out at this stage. The work that concludes this stage is frugal food (1904).

Pink Stage (1904 – 1907)

The man from Malaga decides to move to Montmartre, Paris. The Parisian aura inspires the artist to create the paintings on this stage. It is the opposite of the previous step, as the resources a more cheerful and lively tonealthough the characters have not hardly emotion.

The protagonists are clowns, acrobats and jugglers, the circus is vital to understand this phase. O the colors are warmer and in pastel tones. Now use funny and complete pictures.

Three of the most important paintings from this phase are the acrobat family (1905), The actor (1904) and Dutch beauty (1906).

Dark Period (1906 – 1909)

Primitive African art and Iberian art inspired the artist in this new stage, transition to cubism. The figures decompose and dark colors and shades of gray predominate.

At this stage, the work stands out bust of woman (1909).

Cubism

It was a movement who developed with Jorge Braque in Paris. It was characterized by the use of geometric shapes (cubes, spheres…) representing figures from nature. The result was a third dimension that stands out for breaking with perspective. It should not be confused with abstract art, as all the forms used have a concrete use.

The work that begins with this step is The ladies of Avignon (1907).

Within cubism we find three phases: scenic cubism, analytical or hermetic cubism and synthetic cubism.

stage cubism

Stage Cubism, also known as “pre-analytic”, is the first phase of this stage. Here we find Cézanne, the artist who laid the foundations of this movement by inspiring cubist art.

At this stage, the work stands out landscape with two figures (1908).

analytical cubism

The name of this stage comes from the deep analysis what Picasso did about his works, with his different points of view. In addition to a greater number of plans.

We see the use of The range of colors ochre, blue, green and even gray.

We can see different works at this stage, e.g. The poet (1911) and still life with clarinet (1911).

Synthetic Cubism (1912 – 1914)

At this stage, there are he collage. He started using paper, pieces of tablecloth… in his work. The purpose of collage was to reconstruct the images that were previously decomposed. Thus, creating the “overall importance of the result” with a color palette was greatly expanded.

Jobs like Guitar, clarinet and bottle on a table (1916) and bouteille from below (1914).

Neoclassicism (1917 – 1925)

The theme of this stage was definitely the family environmentin fact he painted his wife Olga Khokhlova on several occasions (Portrait of Olga on a sofa (1918)). Thus transmitting tranquility. In 1921, Picasso has a son named Pauloanother source of inspiration for the artist.

Also the theme of these works were mythological motifs.

Surrealism (1928-1932)

Surrealism, where Picasso always denied having been, but his paintings say otherwise.

characters predominate monstrous, deformed and large. At this stage, the artist begins to represent the Dreams' worldAbsolute lack of control and indecipherable metaphors bathed the Malagueño stage.

One of the most important works is figures by the sea (1931).

Expressionism (1932-1946)

The Spanish Civil War and World War II distorted Picasso's works. Now anguish and fear They were the protagonists of those empty canvases due to the pain of all those victims.

The Guernica (1937)

The unforeseen bombings of the Germans on the people of the Basque Country and the commission of the Government of the Second Republic made Picasso one of his best-known works throughout the world. Lasting just one month, the artist painted a painting almost 8 meters wide to be exhibited at the Paris World's Fair in 1937.

Vallauris (1946-1953)

Picasso at this stage, settles in the French city of Vallauris ever since he fell in love with an exhibition of ceramics. He made pots, plaster sculptures, vases, tiles... all types of ceramics, in fact he created more than 2,000 pieces. Taking inspiration from family life and also his interest in Bullfighting.

Last stage (1954 – 1973)

In this last stage, Picasso dedicated himself to review work of painters of the stature of Velázquez, Goya or Manet. In 1972, the artist created from them latest self-portraits. He died a year later, on April 8, 1973. On this day, 50 years ago.

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