Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was known for many reasons, the women, the fame, even the money but that is not really, why he is important though. He is more important for the fantastic and breathing art he created and made over his seven decade art career period that literally transformed the 20th century.

Sex; All the way through Picasso's work you can see the influences women had over him. Picasso had many repetitive painting of countless lovers of his, their naked bodies and facial portraits, showing his passionate love affair within his works. Picasso created more works of art based on his second wife Jacqueline Roque than any of his other lovers, in one year he painted over 70 portraits of her. I think the best example to look at would be images of Marie Therese Walter. He created many painted images of Marie like her sleeping in a striped chair and a pastel and charcoal drawing on canvas of Marie seemingly grasping a younger version of herself.



Magic; There's a point in Picasso's work where he discovers something new and it completely changes the way he looks at an object, face or body. You can notice these African-influences in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the change of the natural face to a mask like face of the women. This is when he met Gertrude Stain and her brother Leo. It was because of the Steins, Picasso's work reflected the studies of African, Iberian and Roman masks. This paved the way for cubism, something Picasso developed and even collaborated with Georges Braque. The magic of what the two had created is remarkable and at the time rattled some sort of motivation that radically spread to all places around the world.

Death; Picasso was formed by a journey through Spain, by the death of his younger sister and the  suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. This caused his blue period. Funny to think during the middle ages blue was represented as a royal and powerful colour and at the time it was the only colour Picasso could afford. From this several paintings of the deceased were created. Guernica, Picasso was seemingly portraying the bombing of a basque village during the Spanish civil war. He took imagery of his own private life and he transferred that into a town under bombardment and this combination of the personal and the political made the most powerful political painting of the 20th century.