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In the museum, Barcelona

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The Illustrated Biography of Pablo Picasso
A complete testimony of his personal and professional life

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His life's work

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

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Converted into an icon of modernity, Pablo Picasso is today considered one of the most influential artists in history. Endowed with an insatiable curiosity, the painter surpassed all the cultural conventions of his time, establishing the direction of the plastic arts through new forms of expression such as Cubism. Added to his capacity for creative innovation, Picasso had a magnetic personality, which led him to become a celebrity admired throughout the world.

Dosde's books on Picasso allow us to get to know the life and work of this unavoidable reference of modern painting, whose revolutionary artistic ideas have influenced generations of artists. Their pages allow the reader to follow the fascinating career of a painter in constant evolution, the creator of works such as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica, which over time have converted into authentic icons of the twentieth century.

Picasso's biography

The biographies dedicated to Picasso show the interest that the painter aroused apart from his artistic achievements. Parallel to his creative activity, Picasso's life was as intense as it was exciting, marked by the complex relationships he maintained with his family and his circle of friends and by his involvement in some of the most important historical episodes of the twentieth century, such as the Second World War. These experiences were reflected in many of Picasso's paintings, key tools to understand the personality of such a unique artist.

Just as it is explained in Pablo Picasso's biography published by Dosde, the artist was born in Málaga on the 25th of October in 1881, and, after spending time in La Coruña, in 1895 he moved with his family to Barcelona, the city in which the painter discovered the bohemian world and the most recent artistic trends emerging in the north of Europe.

In 1900 the artist travelled for the first time to Paris, the world capital of culture, where he settled a few years later in order to make his way in the competitive market of French art. In Paris, Picasso would become internationally famous and would make the acquaintance of some of his best friends, such as the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaure, but would also experience turbulent relationships and periods of anguish, not forgetting two world wars.

In his later years, Picasso, faced with the growing inconveniences originating from his fame and the impossibility of returning to Spain due to his political compromise with communist ideals, opted to seek refuge in the south of France, where he found the tranquility he needed to continue working.

Books on Picasso reveal that during this time, the painter continued to be as creative as ever, despite the fact that the media was often more interested in his private life than his artistic merits. In fact, the Malagan artist continued working until he passed away in Mougins, a small French town, in 1973, aged 91.

Picasso's evolution

Art books focused on Picasso show that the creator of Guernica was a multi-faceted artist, who always tried to flee from any stylistic classification that might limit his artistic expression. Throughout his career, the painter never doubted in experimenting with different techniques and languages, absorbing the most varied of influences with the aim to enrich his artistic universe. This insatiable curiosity helped him convert into an all-round artist, capable of transmitting his ideas in many different ways.

Picasso already demonstrated his talent at the beginning of his artistic career, when he was still working under his father's supervision, the Malagan painter José Ruiz Blasco. Picasso's works carried out in this period show that the painter was able to quickly assimilate the techniques of the great masters and experienced a progressive evolution towards a more personal style, partly influenced by Modernism and Impressionism.

Contact with the bohemian scene led Picasso into the so-called Blue Period, distinguished by the use of cold colours and melancholic characters. Later, the works of Pablo Picasso evolved towards the Rose Period and, after an artistic crisis, the painter began a series of plastic experiments that led to the creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the beginning of Cubism, a style that was a turning point in the history of art.

During this period, the painter worked closely with George Braque, whose contributions were as decisive as Picasso's for the consolidation of Cubism, and carried out the first artistic collages in history, carried out with everyday elements such as drink labels and newspaper cuttings.

As is explained in books about Picasso, when he obtained the favour of the critics and the public, the author of Guernica continued to demonstrate his eagerness to excel. Picasso's paintings show a constant stylistic evolution until his final days, with his work being influenced by Classicism, Surrealism and Expressionism. At the same time, Picasso alternated painting with sculpture, engraving, ceramics, theatre and poetry, amongst other disciplines that allowed him to channel his revolutionary ideas.

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