Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous painters to have lived. He is know for his many masterpieces, one of them LES DEMOSELLES D'AVIGNON. Picasso had an interest in art from young. By the age of thirteen he was copying plaster cast of other antique sculptures. He attended the school of fine arts in Spain, where his father worked. His father was a known to be a minor naturalistic painter, and he put the paint and paintbrushes into his hands at a young age.

He received fame instantly from his first exhibit in 1901, at he galeries vollard in Paris. People began giving him titles, and described him as the brilliant newcomer. After his first exhibit he was on a search to find a specific style for his drawing. He called the period where he was searching for himself the "blue period", because this is when drew melancholy figures. Then the rose period is when the mood becomes lighter, more lyrical, less doom laden. He chose to draw about the nature in a sexually explicit way. Meeting Fernande Olivier in 1904, led to his drawings in the demoiselles. She became his mistress for seven years; she earned her living as an artist's model. The fact that she lived her life as a model sparked jealousy in Picasso. His jealous put a bad turn on their relationship, it put him in a crisis, which once again led to the art in the demoiselles.

After awhile Picasso decided to turn his canvases to the walls and put away his paint brushes. For many days and nights all he would do was draw and it made more painting to out in his demoiselles. He made large canvas; he would paint on any large paper he could find. And these paintings were said to have provided a vivid insight into his mental and visual processes. The controversy all began when people began to really analyze his paintings in depthly. People began to get appalled with his painting because they showed depictions of people in the nude. Some people didn't understand why other thought of his sketches to be sexually explicit, because he wasn't the first to draw sketches of people in the nude. Some say the reason why people reacted harshly to his paintings were because of the mask worn by three of the five women in the sketch. Another reason why the painting caused controversy is because it consisted of seven figures, two of which were men, but the two men were later moved from the work. He wanted his worked to be mysterious, because with men visually seen, it is known to one that