Pablo Picasso Research Paper

Google 1K Essay: Pablo Picasso Colin Cameron
1/9/15
8th Cardinal
Humanities
Ms. Paulson

Pablo Picasso said, “Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels, (and) what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Pablo
Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25th, 1881, but he spent most of his adult life in France. France has over 2,000 miles of green and rugged coastline and
Picasso was constantly inserting it into his artwork. The geography and culture both inspired and depressed Picasso, and they were huge influences on how and what he painted. The geography and culture of France were two influential factors that were motivation behind Pablo Picasso’s work. One aspect of geography that shows up in
This piece was especially remarkable because it was the revolutionary piece that began the art movement known as
Cubism
. Picasso created
Cubism
with another artist named
Georges Braque.
Cubism
is the art form where an object is broken up into pieces and

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then reassembled in a completely different order. The events of Picasso’s life were a source of inspiration for his art. Picasso’s Blue Period began in 1901 and illustrated situations of poverty, sadness, anger, and malnourishment.
The Old Guitarist is the most well known Blue Period piece; it portrayed an emaciated old man playing a guitar.
The overall aura of the piece is solemn and depressing. This was how Picasso felt when he was painting his piece; he painted The Old Guitarist because one of his close friends, named Carlos Casagemas, had committed suicide. Just as Picasso’s work was influenced by geography, my art was highly influenced by the geography of Mougins,
France.

There were many areas of France to choose my aerial view from, but I decided to choose Mougins France because this was where Pablo Picasso lived, painted many pieces, and where he passed away at age 91 in 1973. My piece represents
I particularly like the red buildings contrasted against the green hills. As Picasso chose the landscape and society to insert in his artwork I have chosen landscape as the main influence for my piece. I chose my subject because it attracted my interest. Artists often have to be motivated which has an effect or impact on them ­ whether good or bad ­ to inspire feelings and creativity.

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Pablo Picasso was moved and inspired by geography and culture and they were two giant characteristics of his work. Geography and culture are different yet similar and often impact each other. They come together to form one single picture, and that is what influenced and inspired Picasso’s artwork. From his Blue Period (1901­04), through his
Rose Period (1904­06), his African Influence Period (1907­09), to his Analytic Cubism
Period (1909­12), to his Synthetic Cubism Period (1912­19), his Classicism and
Surrealism Period (1919­25), Picasso remained an important and influential artist. Pablo
Picasso died in 1973 and was arguably one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th