Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was born in Malaga, Spain. He is the most creative and influential artist in the contemporary West. He and his paintings are famous in the world. occupies an immortal place in the history of art. Picasso was also a prolific painter. According to statistics, his works totaled nearly 37,000 pieces, including: 1,885 oil paintings, 7,089 sketches, 20,000 prints, and 6,121 lithographs.
Picasso's painting methods and styles changed several times throughout his life. Perhaps due to his sensitivity and precocity to the impermanence of the world, coupled with his poor family background, Picasso's early works were full of precocious melancholy, and his early paintings resembled expressionist themes. During his studies, Picasso worked hard to study academic techniques and traditional themes, resulting in works such as "First Communion" that depict religious themes. Degas' soft tones and the high-society themes pursued by Lautrec were also the subjects of Picasso's early studies. In paintings such as "Moulin Garrett" and "Woman Drinking Absinthe", we can always see the floating sound and light phantoms using Lautrec's technique, ambiguously flowing with sadness. When Picasso was fourteen years old, he moved to Barcelona with his parents and saw the new local art and ideas. However, just when he was eager to give it a try, he encountered the defeat of the Spanish Colonial War at that time. Fierce political changes have led to tragic scenes for the people, and Barcelona, ??an important city, is the first to bear the brunt. Perhaps it was this dual stimulation of excitement and despair that gave Picasso the melancholy power of the Blue Period in his subconscious. Picasso moved to Paris, down and out, and lived in a weird and dilapidated residence called the "Laundry Boat", which was a gathering place for wandering artists at the time. It was at this time that Olivia, who was seventeen years old, walked into Picasso's life gracefully on a rainy day. As a result, the nourishment and sweetness of love softened his already stubborn and decadent soul towards life, and the painful blue color in his painting also began to have jumping emotions. The old sadness is slowly and carefully burned away. At this time, the entire painting style swells with the tenderness of happiness and the joy of emotional belonging. Although the expressions of the characters in the works of the Rose Red period are still cold, they already pay attention to harmonious beauty and subtle human concerns. The whole, except for the richness of color, has been withdrawn from the hopeless abyss of the previous blue period. Abandon the previous symbol of sadness and lack of vitality of being poor and sick, and replace it with being full of interest, concern and confidence in all aspects of life. In "Woman in a Shirt", a looming tulle shirt gently outlines the Dong body emerging from the darkness, and its firm extension reveals the arrogance and confidence of the young woman. Slender and vague beauty flows like a ghost. The overall atmosphere is conveyed softly and meticulously, making the mysterious body admire the morbid beauty in the mist. The main reason for the formation of collage art stems from Picasso's eagerness to break through the limitations of space, and the product of a stroke of genius. In fact, collage was not invented by Picasso. It already existed in folk crafts in the 19th century, but it was Picasso who introduced it to the painting and separated it from the status of craftsmanship. The first collage work "Still Life on a Rattan Chair" and the 1913 "Guitar" are both the best interpretations of Cubism using collage techniques. Later paintings focused on primitive art and simplified images. From 1915 to 1920, the painting style once turned to realism. In 1930, he was obviously leaning towards Surrealism. During World War II, Picasso painted the oil painting "Guernica" to protest against the German and Italian fascists' indiscriminate bombing of the small town of Guernica in northern Spain. This painting is Picasso's most famous abstract painting that combines cubism, realism and surrealism. The violent deformation, twisting and exaggerated brushstrokes, the accumulation of geometric color blocks, and the abstract shape express pain, suffering and Animal nature expresses Picasso's many complex emotions. In the later period, he produced a large number of sculptures, prints and pottery, and also achieved outstanding achievements. Picasso engaged in artistic activities from the end of the 19th century until the 1970s. Picasso was the most influential modernist painter in the entire 20th century. Picasso's works have a great influence on modern Western art schools. Picasso was an explorer of ever-changing artistic techniques. He absorbed the artistic techniques of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Beasts and adapted them into his own style. His talent is that he maintains his rough and strong personality in his various variant styles, and he can achieve internal unity and harmony in the use of various techniques. He has reached the highest level, and his works, whether they are ceramics, prints, or sculptures, are like childish play. In his life, he never had a specific teacher or a specific disciple, but among the painters active in the twentieth century, no one could completely detour the path forward opened by Picasso. In 1973, he passed away quietly, completing his long career at the age of ninety-two, and spent his life as he wished.
He is one of the most influential artists in the West in the 20th century. He left an astonishing number of works throughout his life, with rich and varied styles and full of extraordinary creativity. Representative works include: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Portrait of Caswell", "Bottle, Glass and Violin", and "Guernica".