![]() Actually, it was a French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who first called it "bizarre cubiques" or cubism,Īfter noting that Picasso and Braque's paintings are "full of little cubes."ĩ. In 1909, Picasso and French artist Georges Braque co-founded an art movement known as cubism. Apollinaire fingered Picasso as a suspect, so the police hauled him in for questioning. ![]() Police took in Picasso's friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Picasso signed his first contract in Paris with art dealer Pere Menach, who agreed to pay him 150 francs per month (about US$750 today).Īctually no, but in 1911, when the famous painting Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from the Louvre, the I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly. ![]() But Picasso chafed at being told what to do and he was often thrown into "detention":įor being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. No doubt about it, Picasso was brilliant: artistically, he was years ahead of his classmates who were all five to six years older than him. It was his uncle, a doctor named Don Salvador, Picasso had such a difficult birth and was such a weak baby that when he was born, the midwife thought that he was stillborn so she left him on a table to attend his mother. When He Was Born, The Midwife Thought He Was Stillborn His first major painting, an "academic" work is First Communion, featuring a portrait of his father, mother, and younger sister kneeling before an altar. It's like Picasso was born an artist: his first word was "piz," short of lápiz the Spanish word for 'pencil.' His father Ruiz, an artist and art professor, gave him a formal education in art starting from the age of 7.īy 13, Ruiz vowed to give up painting as he felt that Pablo had surpassed him.Īt the tender young age of 9, Picasso completed his first painting: Le picador, a man riding a horse in a bullfight. ![]() ![]() The "Picasso" is actually from his mother, Maria Picasso y Lopez. He was named after various saints and relatives. Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. ![]()
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