Picasso And Vincent Van Gogh Comparison

Alisha Hernandez
Professor Ruane
Art 106
4 June 2016
Compare and Contrast
Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch man who was born on 30 March 1853 in
Zundert, Netherlands. His full name is Vincent Willem van Gogh. His father was named Theodorus Van Gogh, who was an austere country minister, and his mother was Anna Cornelia Carbentus, who was an artist with love for drawing nature. One interesting fact about Vincent Van Gogh is the fact that he had the same name as his dead brother. Interestingly, van Gogh was fluent in French, German, Dutch, and English. At the young age of 15, van Gogh was working at his Uncle Cornelis’ art dealership, which was called Goupil & Cie., and he had to work here because his family was
One of the most interesting facts about Picasso is the length of his name, which is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. Picasso’s mother was named Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez and his father was named Don José Ruiz Blasco, and he was a painter and art teacher. Furthermore, Picasso was a very poor student compared to his peers, but he had a unique talent from a very young age to draw. Another interesting fact about Picasso is the legend of his first words, and according to legend they were “piz, piz,” which was supposedly an attempt at saying “lápiz,”; the word for pencil. As a young boy Picasso’s father, Don José Ruiz Blasco, started teaching him how to draw and paint, and at the young age of thirteen, he had already surpassed his father’s skill
Although moving around may be tough for some children, Picasso took advantage of his new home and applied to a prominent school of Fine Arts within his new city. Of course, Picasso was beyond his years, and this was proved once again when he was accepted in to the school, which normally did not allow fourteen year olds to join them. Later on in 1897, Picasso moved to Madrid, where he would attend the Royal Academy of San Fernando. Of course, sticking to his nature, Picasso did not follow the rules at either of these great schools because he believed that people should get their own inspiration for drawing, and not from some famous artist like Michelangelo. The Royal Academy of San Fernando did not work out for Picasso and he moved back to Barcelona where he met a group of artists who would help shape Picasso’s life, and give him the inspiration to start experimenting and going outside the box with his