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Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Picasso was influenced by the medical profession from an early age. His paternal uncle, Dr. Salvador Ruiz, was a physician and financed Picasso's art training. When Picasso entered art school at the Instituto da Guarda at the age of ten, the director, Dr. Ramon Perez Couteles, who was also a physician, became Picasso's role model. [2]
Three Musicians, also known as Musicians with Masks or Musicians in Masks, is a large oil painting created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He painted two versions of Three Musicians . Both versions were completed in the summer of 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France , in the garage of a villa that Picasso was using as his studio.
In September 1900, 18-year-old Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris with his friend Carlos Casagemas for the Universal Exhibition.The subject of the work is a night scene in the famous Parisian nightclub Moulin de la Galette, crowded with people dancing, in the middle band, or resting at tables, in the lower left corner.
Picasso worked somewhat dispassionately from January until late April on the project's initial sketches, which depicted his perennial theme of an artist's studio. [1] Then, immediately upon hearing reports of the 26 April bombing of Guernica, poet Juan Larrea visited Picasso's home to urge him to make the bombing his subject. [ 1 ]
Due to Picasso's use of cardboard in this artwork, Famille d'acrobates avec singe has been the focus of an ongoing conservation project to study the condition of the work and also to understand Picasso's technique and materials. Picasso often made use of cardboard for his 1905 works, due to his poor financial condition, as it was cheaper than ...
Pablo Picasso, 1901, Old Woman (Woman with Gloves), oil on cardboard, 67 x 52.1 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art Le Gourmet, 1901, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pedro Mañach, 1901, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pablo Picasso, 1901, Harlequin and his Companion (Les deux saltimbanques), oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow Pablo Picasso, 1901, Portrait de ...
Acrobat and Young Harlequin (French: Acrobate et jeune Arlequin) is a 1905 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. Painted toward the end of Picasso's Blue Period and the outset of his Rose Period , the work displays characteristics of both, with its melancholic subject and its blue and rose palette. [ 1 ]