We can therefore see how Picasso was able to capture the essence of the shapes and colors of nature and how his work can sometimes be reflected in it. This, among many other aspects, may well be the reason why he is one of the leading artists of the 20th century. In this century, Picasso’s name has even reached the “stars”: an asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter has been named after him. Similarly, a strangely shaped crater with a large arc inside it on the planet Mercury has recently been named after the great Spanish-French painter, now 50 years after his death. Manuel Ruiz Rejón Referencias Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/; Spanish:[ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces. Picasso's painting 'Bullfight', moreover, focuses less on the eponymous bull and more on the horse. This horse, stamping the ground in what could be fury or distress, has unseaed its rider and may be said to be one of the victims of the fight. Though throughout his oeuvre Picasso tends to depict horses in moments of extreme or overwhelming pain or emotion, his calmer studies can often be jauty or jovial. This drawing of a horse is a prime example of this: a skilled artist demonstrating his skill and showing his love of the equine form with a few minimal lines.

In addition, Picasso had direct knowledge of nature’s animals through the descriptions of the famous naturist, the Comte de Buffon . In the 18th century, this great scientist tried to gather all the existing information about living beings and minerals in his work entitled Histoire Naturelle , which consisted of 44 volumes, some of which were published after his death. In 1936, Picasso’s publisher and art dealer, Ambroise Volland, who knew of Picasso’s passion for animals, suggested that he illustrate a text compiling an anthology of Buffon’s descriptions. To do so, Picasso produced more than 50 illustrations in 1943. This text, known as the Picasso-Buffon Bestiary, was a gift the great painter gave to his then-lover, Dora Maar. Let us conclude by mentioning the fact that one of the animals for which Picasso was most fond, pigeons, are “paying tribute” to him in another field of biology. Significant in this respect are the studies in which Picasso’s works – especially paintings in the Cubist style – are used in comparison with those of Monet – Impressionist – to try to see whether animals such as pigeons can distinguish them. These experiments show that pigeons, once trained by seeing works by one or the other, are then able to distinguish between them when presented with new works. It can even be seen that the pigeons can still distinguish Picasso’s cubist works when they are presented upside down, whereas this is not the case with Monet. These studies, which began in the 1990s (2) , are now being continued with techniques that make it possible to identify which parts of the birds’ brains are involved in these visual recognition processes (3) . Experiments in this field also show that very young children – under the age of one – prefer the works of Picasso to those of Monet (4).

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This monumental canvas was intended for Picasso to reflect on and farewell to the pivotal period in his career, when he pioneered Cubism. Owl PLD01 - Owl sketch is one of the many works produced by Picasso which concerns owls. Owls occur again and again in Picasso's work. This sketch is a line drawing produced by Picasso. It is extraordinarily simple but is, in my opinion, charming in its simplicity. Owls can be found throughout Picasso's career, in all manner of styles and mediums. His Owl ceramics were particularly charming, with the spout of the item being used as the bird's beak. What we know is that in many instances, Picasso painted aspects of the composition and then subsequently obliterated them and transformed them into other compositional elements. This was really part of his practice,” she said. Throughout his long life, Pablo Picasso was an active painter. In his career, he has taken on a wide range of creative challenges. From 1901 to 1904, his Blue Period was in full force. In 1904, Picasso met Fernande Olivier, who lasted seven years with him. Beautiful women, in Picasso’s opinion, were a defining theme throughout his life, from his first painting to his final composition. He became obsessed with her at times, and she became his artistic muse. Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque, is the subject of over 400 portraits, according to the artist. A generation of artists were inspired by Picasso’s sketches. From Keith Haring’s bold-lined street art paintings to Picasso's contemporaries Matisse and Jean Hans Arp, minimalist line drawings are appreciated by all manner of artists.

This set of 6 Picasso line drawings is part of Picasso's range of "line art". Picasso's single line drawings were created later in his career, after the surrealism period. The single line pieces are from a collection of over fifty works in which his drawing implement was not lifted from the paper until the masterpiece was finished. Pencil sketches feel supremely contemporary and suit that style of home perfectly, with many people today designing interiors that have just a few carefully chosen items, with plenty of space around the room to help everything breathe. They are a serigraph artworks, which means that they are a silk screen print using ink onto a piece of heavy weight paper.Picasso was a committed sculptor throughout his career, though for a long time this side of his art was not widely known. In 1930, he acquired a house in Boisgeloup, forty miles outside of Paris. Away from the distractions of city life, it became the ideal place for him to pursue his sculpture work with a new energy. The disused stable became a dedicated sculpture studio where he also experimented with printmaking. Consider planning your ideas of your sculpture on a piece of paper and then find some playdough, clay or even a pile of dirt that you can add water to, and make up your own small-scale autobiographical sculpture of yourself and your beloved pet/animal as inspired by the art of French-Venezuelan artist Marisol Escobar for her friend Georgia O’Keeffe.

These works mostly deal with animals and reflect his enduring love for animals and his pets which were often the subjects of his art, especially featuring in his line drawings. These images are hugely popular most likely due to the energy they exude. They Stand out for being so simple and yet they show a mastery of the Craft of drawing due to how expertly Picasso manages to use so view lines to convey the IDEA of the animal. Influenced by: Marc Chagall , Henri Rousseau , El Greco , Francisco Goya , Paul Gauguin , Paul Cezanne , Henri Matisse , Auguste Rodin , Nicolas Poussin , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Rembrandt , Diego Velazquez , Antoine Watteau , Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres , Matthias Grünewald The painting is on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as part of an exhibition about the painter’s formative years in Paris. The simplicity, energy and life captured in Picasso’s line drawings perhaps explains the continued popularity of these images. To express so much is a lot harder than it looks and is testament to Picasso's artistic talent. In the drawings he made to illustrate the text, Picasso depicted his vision of animals in a more or less realistic manner, from insects such as butterflies, dragonflies, bees, and wasps, to arachnids and crustaceans such as lobsters and lobsters, and other animals such as fish, roosters, vultures, frogs, wolves, deer, bulls, horses and monkeys. Other works by the artist include highly realistic animals such as pigeons, bulls, horses, donkeys, and his son Paulo’s painting of an equine, for example.

Over the course of almost 70 years, Picasso (25 October 1881-8 April 1973) produced more than 50,000 works, including paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, ceramics, and lithographs, in different styles ranging from realism to cubism and even surrealism, impressionism and expressionism. Together with many human figures, these works depict a variety of animals and, to a lesser extent, plants. When the world’s fair ended, the Spanish Republic toured Guernica throughout Scandinavia and England to raise awareness and funds for their cause. In 1939, however, they conceded to the Nationalists. Picasso vehemently refused to allow the painting to reside in Spain while Franco ruled, declaring that “the painting will be turned over to the government of the Spanish Republic the day the Republic is restored in Spain!” Thus began the painting’s long exile.

Picasso inquired about whether the dog had ever had its own plate as they ate lunch with his future wife Jacqueline Roque and Duncan. Picasso responded, “I painted a portrait of Lump on my own dinner plate,” after Duncan declined. Camel PLD04. The genius of Picasso enabled him to produce a charming, highly recognisable camel with just a single pencil line. This informal sketch has become one of the artist's most respected and much loved animal drawings. Camel appears to simply be a sketch of an animal, with no real meaning behind it. The artist may have been purely exercising his artistic mind during a spare moment. Picasso created his single line drawings using a variety of media, including pencil, pen, ink and brush. His single line drawing subjects included musicians, harlequins, nature and animals. Picasso was heavily influenced by the early 20th-century style of Primitive art in the creation of his line art.But perhaps what makes Picasso best known is that in many of his works animals appear more or less simplified, or, indeed, dislocated or distorted. On the one hand, we have the “schematic” drawings of pigeons, bulls, and the dog in his Meninas, for example. On the other hand, we have the horses and bulls included in, for example, Guernica. Our great artist also painted or depicted strange and mythological animals, such as the centaurs, fauns and minotaurs, omnipresent in the Vollard suite, for example. Even in some paintings with plants, he included small bulls with wings fluttering like bees around them. Anderson et al. 2020. Pigeon…neural responses during categorization of Monet and Picasso paintings. Rep. 10:15971.