Picasso's message

Picasso (188 1 ~ 1973) was born in Spain. He is the most creative and influential artist in the contemporary west. He and his paintings occupy an immortal position in the history of world art. Picasso was a prolific painter. According to statistics, his works total nearly 37,000 pieces, including oil painting 1 0,885 pieces, sketch 7089 pieces, print 20,000 pieces and lithograph 6 1 piece.

With Vincent, who has been down and out all his life? Van Gogh is different. Picasso's life was brilliant. He was the first painter who lived to see his works collected by the Louvre. In the opinion poll of a French newspaper in February, 1999, he was elected as the top ten greatest painters of the 20th century with a high vote of 40%.

The contents of Picasso's early works are real life themes rather than art or nature. The intense melancholy and despair in his Blue Period (about 190 1- 1904) was influenced by the concern for life and death in the last century. At that time, the atmosphere in France and Spain was filled with depression, and the pale young people were holding a world-weary mood. Most painters have a hard life. 190 1 year, Picasso rented a studio near Montmartre, and many painters gathered, but his works were neglected, with a hard life and a silent and lonely personality. In the next three years, he gave up bright colors and all his paintings were submerged in blue. 190 1 The "blue self-portrait" created by him is just so-so. In this painting, his melancholy background shows his inner state, but it is hard to see that he was only 20 years old. In fact, his eyes, thin facial features and sad expression all reveal his mental state. The blue coat and blue color at that time greatly influenced Picasso from his friend's despair and death, because his friend Casa Gamas tried to commit suicide. Picasso once revealed to the art historian Pierre Dykes, "When I thought Casa Gamas was dead, I began to paint in blue". After the death of Spanish painter Casa Gamas, it was a great blow to pica. He also painted five paintings on the topic of the death of his friend.

Picasso moved into "Ship Washing" in May 1904, which was the end of the blue period. Later, he met Fernando olivier. Because of her, Picasso regained his confidence and gradually gave up blue painting. 190 5, Picasso's creation of "The Family of Wandering Artists" kicked off the "pink period". In the "Pink Period" (1904- 1906), the colors used by Picasso were suddenly enlightened, and pink, gray and loess colors were adopted, which formed a deep sadness in the atmosphere. The theme of "juggler" is taken from circuses and theaters. At that time, in Montmartre, stuntmen all knew Picasso. The artist felt the social and political inequality at that time, and this euphemistic way was presented in his works. Later, Picasso met a dancer named Ouka Koklova, who was decorating the stage for a ballets russes. Because of her outstanding temperament and charming demeanor, Picasso was deeply attracted, and finally they got married on 19 18. Three years later, her son Paul was born. Later, Picasso finally had a happy family. 1907, Picasso finished Mother and Child. Although this theme has been painted before, this painting is a turning point in his creative career. This painting broke away from "pleasing to the eye" and formed a new modeling language.

Picasso painted an unexpected image. His mother is no longer loving, his children are no longer naive, his faces are full of threats, and his red and blue clothes also have his special meaning. Picasso's sense of existence destroyed the image of maternal love in general imagination, but also subverted the traditional painting techniques. He once said: "In the past, a painting was the result of many things, but in my works, painting is the sum of a series of damages." The later work "avignon Girl" also formed an unprecedented shock. This is a painting that never pays attention to the beauty of women, but presents the truth of the human body. It is very similar to Mother and Child, for example, the face of the characters is very similar to the head of an African mask or an original Spanish sculpture. Because Picasso once visited the Oceania and African museums in Paris, he was deeply shocked: there is an art that is not limited to depicting reality and copying reality! This is a spontaneous and primitive art, and then Picasso constantly forced himself to feel the "spontaneity" of things. He isolated himself, freely followed his creative instinct and ignored the thoughts and opinions of people around him. At that time, some people thought Picasso was a hopeless madman, and only the collector Conville understood and supported him. Conweiler is an artist, collector, art critic and publisher. He is the most important artist in Picasso's works.

Before World War I, Europe's economy was prosperous. After the first world war, people's will was depressed. Although France was defeated, it was also devastated and the society tended to return to tradition. Picasso and others were keenly aware of the trend of the times and formed a whirlwind of neoclassicism in their creation. He began to devote himself to realistic neoclassicism, such as Bright Sky, Statue Face and Woman in Ancient Costume ... Picasso briefly devoted himself to neoclassicism, and later turned to surrealism. Race is Picasso's masterpiece in the neoclassical period.

After a quiet and warm life, Picasso began to get tired of the extravagant life. He started another love affair with the heroine Mary Terez. First she was Picasso's model, then she became a lover. Mary Treize Sitting is a masterpiece after they met for ten years. Picasso painted the feeling of meeting her with a brush. Picasso was 55 years old when this work was completed. And this "sitting Mary Terez" became the most striking portrait in the Picasso Museum. 1903, Picasso's private life changed the most. At that time, Picasso married Ouka and lived with Mary, and began to worship the female photographer Dora Marr. Ouka gave birth to Paul and Mary gave birth to her daughter Maya. In order to compete for him, the war between three women began. This painting was painted when the relationship between Picasso and Mary was seriously hurt. When Picasso wrote "Sitting Mary Terez", it was popular in the painting world to transform and reorganize the characters in the painting. At that time, when people saw this deformed painting, they all tilted their heads and were difficult to understand, so Picasso's painting became synonymous with "incomprehensible". In fact, this is one of the characteristics of Picasso's painting. He created a new aesthetic sense of deformation, a new artistic view and strange eyes and nose in his paintings. It can also be found that although the five senses are deformed, they are still intact. Picasso once said, "What I know through painting is not what I see through painting." Perhaps this sentence can better understand Picasso's art.

Since 1933, a new theme-Minotto has been added to Picasso's works. Picasso tells his story through the tauren monster in Greek mythology. 1936, Picasso and Mary Therese and their daughter Maya lived by the sea, which should have been very happy, but at that time, the first wife refused to divorce, and Picasso fell into love and responsibility for the two women and lived a nightmare life. Since 1935, he can no longer paint or carve, and the only way to express himself is through writing. Later, in Zhu An pine forest, Picasso gradually learned to paint, and in May 1936, he completed a mysterious opaque watercolor painting Milo and the Dead Mare. Milo in the painting is none other than Picasso in a mask, and the dead mare is Mary Torres. Picasso expressed his feelings for Ouka and Mary in this painting. Picasso's work is undoubtedly an autobiography, but it still contains many difficult mysteries. Later, he painted "Minotto's body in A Le's dry clothes". There is no doubt that Minotto is the victim in this painting. He died wearing Picasso's favorite A Le dry clothes. It was not until 1 955 that Minotto-related paintings could be seen in Carnival, such as the woman playing drums in the painting. Is it similar to Dead Mare? .

Picasso started writing at the age of 54. As usual, he likes to establish his own rules, regardless of spelling, grammar and punctuation. His writing is as powerful and agile as painting. Artistic brushwork is a poem he wrote in French and Spanish. The most famous "Okazbo's Funeral" is based on a painting by the painter greco. Picasso also wrote two plays, one is 194 1' s Desire to Be Caught by the Tail, and the other is 1952' s Four Little Girls, which was warmly appreciated. Spain has been plagued by civil war since 1936. In April, the city of guernica was bombed by General Franco's companions. Deeply indignant and sad, Picasso accused the cruelty of war through his creation, so The Crying Woman conveyed the voice of the Spanish people. The woman in the picture is dressed in black, with long hair fluttering and her face twisted painfully. In her hand, the whole outline is very prominent. There are no tears in it. Picasso painted not only a woman who was tortured by pain, but also "pain" itself. In early June, Picasso released a masterpiece "guernica" accusing the war on terror, and then drew a series of works about crying women. Guernica tells the story of all wars. Its pictures are more descriptive than photographs and more touching than documentaries. It does not depict the real situation, but uses a plastic language to convey despair, fear of cloth, anger and so on. 1935 Before guernica was bombed, Picasso met a beautiful photographer and painter Dora Marr and found a bosom friend in her. Since then, Picasso has been living between two women, one is gentle Mary Therese, and the other is intellectually beautiful Dora Mar. Picasso created a portrait of Dora Mar in 19 37. In this portrait, the posture and bright colors reveal Dora's strong personality. The most striking thing is the red eyes in the painting. Picasso once said, "Dora has always been a crying woman to me."

At the same time, it is rare to have a good painting talent and an excellent sculpture in history. /kloc-Michelangelo in the 0 th and 6 th centuries was such an artist. But because of the Renaissance, art originally needed some kind of all-rounder to be familiar with all kinds of artistic creation. Picasso is an undeniable all-round artist. For him, painting and sculpture are inseparable. What is intriguing is that the theme that Picasso set off the climax of artistic creation is actually a traditional still life. Picasso pasted the real thing on the canvas without using any brushes or pigments. He and his friend Braque embarked on this road of exploration, so that his plane painting went to three-dimensional at that time. Painting no longer just reflects reality, but becomes an independent entity. 194 6, Picasso met Zuo Ye hamiye, a ceramic craftsman, and immediately began to create ceramics. 1948, Picasso rented a workshop near Varosi, and there was a special place to pile up broken ceramics near the workshop. The "King of Scavengers" began to dig his gold mine. From the works of 1950s, you can see the broken pottery fragments and the combination of metal and gypsum. Picasso can create novel combinations of sculptures of both human and animals. Picasso once said, "I never look for it, I just find it." He can always turn it into a veritable work of art by accident.

In his later years, the theme of the painter's paintings is people, and there is no specific pattern in portraits, such as the "sitting girl" painted by 1970, but the eyes make people feel that they are depicting Maya or other children of their own. In September of the same year, the painting "The Old Man Sitting" showed Picasso's strong desire with dazzling colors, turbulent oil painting pigments and the old man's trance-like expression. This kind of strong painting is special because ordinary sad paintings are all connected with dark colors, and in this painting, Picasso chose bright orange to match green and blue. Before him, only the painter Van Gogh used this bold and unrestrained color to express the strong contrast with the sad theme.

Ouka, his first wife, died on 1955. 1 96 1 year, his remarried wife was Jacqueline Rocco, when Picasso was 80 years old. 1On April 8, 973, Picasso ended his creative and loving life at the age of 9 1 in Mugan, France, under the care of Jacqueline Rocco. Later, in 1977, beloved Mary Torres committed suicide, and in 19 86, Jacqueline Rocco also shot herself. Picasso had created two art galleries for him before he died. One is the Antibu Art Museum, the other is the Picasso Art Museum in Barcelona, and now it is added to the Picasso Art Museum in Paris. However, Picasso's works are numerous and widely distributed, and almost all art galleries around the world have collections of Picasso's paintings.