Pablo Picasso is one of the most revered artists of his time and maybe in all of history. During his early years he painted in a realistic style creating detailed masterpieces and was already well on his way to becoming a great artist. Picasso went through many artistic phases in his life time, those of which would be his Blue Period, the Rose Period, the African-influenced Period, Analytic Cubism and finally Synthetic Cubism. Picasso revolutionized art in such a way that created waves throughout the modern age and thus affected the world of art itself.
At a very young age was it discovered that Pablo Picasso had an extraordinary talent for art. His father knowing this began training his son Picasso and teaching him the art of …show more content…
It was in Paris that he met journalist and poet Max Jacob and became friends. It was Jacob who aided Picasso in learning French and its literature. Shortly after Picasso and Jacob became roommates and ended up sharing an apartment in Paris. During these times money was hard to come by and poverty was severe, with this Max would sleep at night while Picasso would sleep during the day and work at night. During these times a lot of Picasso’s work was also burned just to keep the room warm for the two of them. Picasso soon after lived in Madrid where he and friend Francisco de Asis Soler created the magazine Arte Joven or young art in English. Picasso was the illustrator of the magazine and during this time Picasso made his first signature as Picasso instead of Pablo Ruiz y Picasso which he had formally signed …show more content…
This period began in 1904 and is seen as a more cheerful style using the colors orange and pink as well as featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins. During this time Picasso met Fernande Olivier a fellow artist who became his mistress. She appears in many of Picasso’s Rose Period paintings, which in turn was influenced by their close relationship. During one of Picasso’s gatherings in 1905 he met Henri Matisse who later became his lifelong friend and rival. It was shortly after this period that Picasso would become famous as more and more people began to follow and collect his