"The more you put yourself in [a painting], the more you remain true to yourself, and the closer you get to truth." That was once said by a famous writer who dared to be different. Picasso's art was a search for truth in his own life; and what a life he led.
Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. When he was young he would amaze his friends by drawing a perfect picture without lifting his pencil or looking at the paper. Pablo had many different periods in his artwork. Two of his most famous paintings are Guernica and The Young Ladies of Avignon. He even created a new way to sculpt and paint! His work was also an important step in modern art. Picasso painted things the way he felt and saw them. Though, the way Picasso saw things weren't what they really seemed. He had kept on working right up to his death. .
Picasso took many risks in his life. The Nazis said that sculptors could not use bronze to create statues after they had captured Paris. But he still used bronze after one of his friends had said that plastic was temporary and bronze lasted forever.
Pablo was very creative and had a great passion for his work of art. When he was 78 many of his friends urged him to retire but he refused. Pablo was so productive that many of his critics thought that his work was superficial. Sometimes he painted three paintings or more in a day. He was obsessed with the creative process itself and would work on a theme in many different mediums until he had made it part of himself.
In the last two decades of his life, Picasso produced more work than any other time during his life. He went deeper into the idea of identity, doing multiple sketches a day. One section of these was playful drawings of two people being seduced by each others masks. .
Right up to his death at the age of 91 in 1973, Picasso passionately questioned his own life. In the end, there is no real line between the man and his work.
