This week I was quite interested in learning more about one of our founding fathers in art, and decided to research more about one artist that was demonstrated in our Artist Role-play project this week in Second Life…Pablo Picasso!
Picasso was a spanish painter and sculptor that had practiced art in the 20th century. Beginning as a child, he had great artistic ability that changed styles as he became an adult which included changing theories, techniques, and ideas. His mediums grew and he began creating oil paintings, sculptures, drawings, and architecture. By the time he turned 50, Picasso had become a public figure and known in all households for his western art.
In Picasso’s personal life, he was known to be a rotten, sarcastic man that was cruel to his children and looked at women as either “goddesses or doormats”. As he lived in a time where Nazis were common, his popularity saved himself from torture and death. At the time, he also confidently endorsed Joseph Stalin, an important man to world war II.
Today, Pablo Picasso is still an important man and artist in every household. He is taught in schools all across the country and is still an everyday name in an art classroom. He work as influenced thousands of perspiring artists across the world, in which he is looked up to and admired for his amazing talents.
I have included one of my favorite pieces by Pablo Picasso called “Life on a Pedestal”. It’s one of his more abstract pieces but I can see a lot of emphasis in the lines and shapes that move throughout the painting. An symmetrical balance flows through the painting giving it a visual weight.
