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Pablo Picasso: Malaga Spain
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Setting a Guinness Book of World Records for being the most prolific artist of the century, Pablo Picasso completed over 250,000 works of art. As a young artist whose father was an artist and curator in Spain, he would have one of the best art educations possible, which helped him on his way to become one of the most sought-after artists in Europe and the world.
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Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain and from very early in his life proved to be a precocious and prolific artist. By 1900, the young Picasso first visited Paris, which was far more active in terms of its influence on the art world, compared to his native Spain. When Picasso arrived, the artists still working there included: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Georges Braque, Cézanne, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Signac, Odilon Redon and others.
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Picasso soon found the atmosphere at the academy stifling, and he returned to Barcelona, where he began to study historical and contemporary art on his own. At that time Barcelona was the most vital cultural center in Spain, and Picasso quickly joined the group of poets, painters, and writers who gathered at the famous café Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats). Between 1900 and 1903 Picasso stayed alternately in Paris, France, and Barcelona. He had his first one-man exhibition in Paris in 1901.
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From March 9 to May 25, the Museu Picasso will host six concerts in its courtyard and neoclassical chamber. The Gran Theatre del Liceu is preparing three ballets with sets and costumes designed by Picasso. On October 22 and 23, the Bordeaux Opera Ballet will perform “Parade, Icarus, The Three-cornered Hat.” From February 16 to 18, 2007, a Picasso-Fallas Season will be inaugurated at L’Auditori with the City Orchestra of Barcelona performing “The Three-cornered Hat” and the National Orchestra of Spain presenting “La Vida Breve,” February 23-25, 2007. A walking tour of Picasso’s Barcelona, a special performance at this summer’s Barcelona Grec Festival and lectures, seminars and workshops at the Universitat de Barcelona, the Museu de Cerámica and several libraries have ... been scheduled.
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As a Spanish citizen living in France Picasso was under no compulsion to fight against the invading Germans in either World War. In the Spanish Civil War service for Spainards living abroad was optional and would have involved a voluntary return to the country to join either side. While Picasso expressed anger and condemnation of Franco and the Fascists through his art he did not directly act against them.
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The Spanish government had asked Picasso to paint a mural for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition. He planned to depict the subject “a painter in his studio”, but when he heard about the events in Guernica, he changed his original plans. After numerous sketches and studies, Picasso gave his own personal view of the tragedy. His gigantic mural Guernica has remained part of the collective consciousness of the twentieth century, a forceful reminder of the event. Though painted for the Spanish government, it wasn't until 1981, after forty years of exile in New York, that the picture found its way to Spain. This was because Picasso had decreed that it should not become Spanish property until the end of fascism.
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