Interesting facts about Pablo Picasso - the artist whose paintings are most often stolen

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Pablo Picasso - a true legend of the pictorial art of the twentieth century. He experimented with styles, was distinguished by incredible productivity and during his time he painted more than 20 thousand paintings. Picasso's works are so in demand that today they are in greatest demand among connoisseurs of painting, but also among the thieves of paintings. This and other interesting facts from the artist's life are discussed later in the review.

At his baptism, the Spanish artist received as many as 23 names in honor of numerous relatives and saints. In fact, his name is Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuseno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Ruiz and Picasso. It is curious that Picasso is the mother's surname. The painter's father was named Jose Ruiz Blasco.

Picasso's mother had a very difficult birth. The midwife even decided that the baby was born dead and put him on the table. His uncle, Dr. Salvador, went to look at the baby and breathed smoke from the cigar he was smoking into his face. Suddenly Pablo grimaced and screamed. This unusual resuscitation method worked.

Picasso was undoubtedly a genius in painting, but school disciplines were given to him with difficulty, and his exemplary behavior was lame. As the painter himself recalled, at school he was often put in a kind of isolation ward ("calaboose"), which was a white room with a bench. The students should have thought about their behavior alone. There was no better place for Picasso than this. He could draw endlessly without being distracted by anyone or anything.

As you know, Pablo Picasso and the French artist Georges Braque in 1909 invented a new trend in art - cubism. Rather, their work was given such a definition by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles, who was the first to note that the artists' paintings are "full of little strange cubes."

Picasso had many lovers. An affair with each of them was like a fight. The hot Spanish nature craved a thrill. Picasso treated women quite cruelly, he fed on their energy, brought them to depression, mental hospital, and suicide. The older Picasso became, the younger his chosen ones were. Just compare their ages at the time of meeting:

Fernanda Olivia (she is 18 years old, he is 23 years old) Marcel Humbert (she is 27 years old, he is 31 years old) Olga Khokhlova (she is 26 years old, he is 36 years old) Marie-Thérèse Walter (she is 17 years old, he is 46 years old) Dora Maar (she 29 years old, he is 55 years old) Françoise Gilot (she is 21 years old, he is 61 years old) Jacqueline Roque (she is 27 years old, he is 79 years old)

Picasso said more than once:

Once the artist's painting was not allowed to cross the border. During the First World War, Picasso was in Rome and met Igor Stravinsky there. He painted a portrait of a Russian composer. The picture came out peculiar, because then the artist worked in a futuristic style. When Stravinsky was leaving the country, the Italian border guards detained him because of the painting. They couldn't believe that the lines and circles were a portrait and not a strategic plan. As a result, the portrait was withdrawn.

Every year, the works of Pablo Picasso become more expensive, and interest in them does not fade not only from auction houses, but also from the kidnappers. Art critics have calculated that there are 1147 paintings by Picasso on the wanted list.

The Spanish artist has portrayed himself more than once. If you compare self-portraits from 15 to 90 years old, then the difference in the technique of execution and the artist's vision of himself is simply striking.