were there any influences on picasso?

Question

e.g other artists, other artwors. life experiences, major historical events, etc

Answer 1

Picasso was influenced byCézanne who was a cubist. That is, Cézanne painted simplified and flattened forms, with one form penetrating another. In 1908, Picasso painted Houses on the Hill, at Horta de Ebro (1909, Museum of Modern Art, New York)-this was very like some of Cezanne's work, and also where the term cubism came from

You could also say he was influenced by his father. (His father was an art teacher.

Answer 2

It's funny how artists, once they become well known or famous, hardly if ever, mention or give credit to those that had the greatest influence on them. I've read several books on Picasso where he is interviewed in which he makes no mention, much less even hint of influences in his early years. What i did gather from other sources was that he and other artists had formed a work shop and that an artist (whos name doesn't come to mind at the moment) in the group did some work experimenting with a particular abstract style that Picasso seemed to take an interest in. The artist in question decided not to pursue it any further and Picasso took it from there, developed it some more, and the rest is history.

Answer 3

His main influence for Cubism that he and Georges Braque founded was Paul Cezanne, a Post Impressionist who tried to reduce everything to basic geometric figures and add depth to flat Impressionist paintings. Salvador Dali criticized Cezanne severely, as well as Pablo Ruiz Picasso. He said when Cezanne tried to paint convex figures, he was so incompetent that he made them concave. Dali also said Cezanne could have painted as well with his feet as his hands. Dali said Picasso had a destructive influence upon painting. Dali may be corect about much or all of this. There is an apocryphal tale that has Picasso telling an interviewer that he is a mountebank peddling trash to fools.

Answer 4

Don't forget the African masks and sculpture. Look up a few African masks on the web, they are some of the most awesome things EVER. Forgive my spelling,. I don't have the title right here in front of me, but the big big painting Madomoiselle D'Avignon ??Sp?? LOL has some mask like faces on the women. picassso was absolutely FASCINATED with African sculpture and this was a main facet in his work for some time.
Also look up the kifwebe mask, congo tribe. Those are some pretty interesting masks...they have the football shaped eyes, Picasso had a lot of that going for a while. :) SD

Answer 5

Picasso was a son of a painting teacher and was a visual savant.
He stole from from the best and made their style his own.
African fetish sculptures fascinated Picasso by their paradoxical alien and human qualities. The forms with their distortions and exaggerations led to the style known as "Cubism".
Cubism was a collaboration with Georges Braque.
The two felt they were the equivalent of the Wright brothers in their mutual field of painting.
Some consider this invention to be the most important innovation since the development of perspective.
This represents the high watermark of his innovation.
Most after were re-examinations of classic Mediterranean myths or intrusions and diversions of his bourgeois Gallic life style complete with wealth,wives and mistresses and the drama they provided.
He died fat n" happy.

Answer 6

Salvador Dali, Henry Matese
Diego Rivera. and Roden

He also met and relicated Caulder as well.

He started his popular movement in art in the late 1930's by the 1960"s he was RED HOT. He is still one of the prolific and popular of the modern age artist. He passed in his late 80's. He was able to enjoy a rare thing in the "art world" international adoration before you are dead. He witnessed several world wars and the civil wars in Spain, he was not a stranger to bloodshed.

He had some cultureal/ mental issues about woman, he felt they were put here to serve him. That was a key motivator in his masculine work style, art presentation and color schemes. He was an angery man with self esteem issues=which works well for artist, look at VanGoch

He often would not engage woman in conversations with them in social settings, which really distanted him from the "social elite" .

His political views were as interesting as his art. A communist and socialist beliefs were not hidden. He loved Cuba as well, and was their in its heyday during WW2. He was "married" twice only the first one was a church and legal one, yet the second one- he had three children, both sons died, except for his daughter Paloma ( famous fashion designer in her own right).

Picasso was a brilliant self taught artist, with a serious machismo "Spanish manhood" complex ( his art reflects his need to overpower) woman in his life.

[Many believe that was his mother complex)
Hence almost every piece his art work has a "bull" in it, even if the art itself covers the picture, its there by xray.

In mid-career he actually was much more diverse and did cubist and sculpture work. REALLY cool stuff.
Enjoy. Look deep into the colors and the complexity of them layered on thick to create "the depth" of the work.

Anthony Hopkins made a great movie about ten years ago- Google it. He did a very good job. He was as short, portly man.

Answer 7

Early Influences

He studied works by Spanish old masters Velázquez and Ribera, as well as by El Greco (the latter's stylized mannerisms would soon play an important role in Picasso's work)

Modernism in Barcelona and Paris

Influences included Théophile Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec, whose impact can be seen in Picasso's work. Picasso traveled to Paris several times beginning in 1900 before settling there permanently in 1904. Many aspiring avant-garde artists at the turn of the century moved to the French capital, where the work of post-impressionist painters Van Gogh, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and their disciples could be seen at the galleries and Salons. With vigorous comprehension, Picasso rapidly assimilated many of these influences. Between 1900 and 1901 his work reflects a variety of new styles and techniques, such as the introduction of bright, unmixed colors.

The Blue Period

Beginning with several paintings that commemorated the recent suicide of his friend Casagemas, the artist's themes grew solemn and dark, and he adopted a palette devoted almost exclusively to shades of blue. He also used gestures borrowed from Tarot cards and other arcane elements of mysticism.

The Saltimbanque

Rose period. Picasso observed circus figures figures firsthand at the Cirque Medrano, as well as in the streets and outskirts of the city, where a migrant community of acrobats, musicians, and clowns-- saltimbanques--entertained.

Gósol and After

Met Henri Matisse, whose work they had also begun to collect.
Travelled to Gósol, a remote mountain village in the Pyrenees. In this rugged yet idyllic setting the artist returned to his Mediterranean roots, producing arcadian depictions of the male and female nude in addition to portraits and views of the sun-drenched hillside village (Gósol Landscape). For his portraits the artist used two somewhat divergent styles: an idealizing manner for weighty but refined images of Fernande; and a grittier, more realistic mode for depictions of Josep Fontdevila, an aging innkeeper with a criminal past who fascinated the artist.

Following his return to the Bateau Lavoir, Picasso continued to explore the new direction his work had taken. In pictures such as Two Nudes he showed female figures of monumental girth standing in an abstract interior space. In addition to ancient Iberian sculpture and Spanish romanesque art, the bathers of Cézanne provided an prominent model for Picasso.

Answer 8

Maybe it's all said. But I want to tell you that in different satges he had different influences. Cezanne and African Masks were the most important.

Answer 9

Picasso was intelligent and curious:
In his cubistic period he was obviously influenced by the assumed 'fourth spatial dimension': http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/ricca/paper.html
And by African art: http://www.drloriv.com/lectures/african.asp#influence
He was interested in early, so called 'primitive' art.
He was very impressed by the paintings in the Lascaux caves and it is said that when he first saw them he cried out: "We haven't learnt anything since those days."
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

Answer 10

Opium , a derivative of the poppy plant . Heroin and alchohol could have also played a part in his madness !!!