L acrobat picasso biography

Picasso - A Review of His Life and Art

Picasso is widely regarded as one of the best artists of all time and certainly the most important artist of the Modernist epoch.

Despite this, much of his achievement remains controversial. The many authors who have written about him characteristically seek to discard one or another aspect of his enormous oeuvre, to concentrate upon some central core, which, however, seems fated to remain undefinable.

L acrobat picasso biography

The same thing can be said of Picasso's biography, which is full of shifting perspectives.

Though closely associated with Catalan culture in his youth, Picasso was not born in Catalonia but in Malaga, in 1881, and lived in that city until he was ten.

The name Picasso came from his mother, not his father - Don Jose Ruiz Blasco - an academic painter of mediocre gifts and a professional teacher of art. After leaving Malaga the family spent four years in Coruna, until Don Jose was appointed Professor at the