Pablo Picasso was a particularly talented artist and quite an eccentric person.
2. The full name of Picasso consists of 24 names of the heavenly patrons of numerous relatives.
3. Pablo's father was also an artist, so the boy took his mother's surname, as if he foresaw his great future.
4. Pablo began to get involved in drawing from early childhood. He received his first painting lessons from his father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, who was an art teacher.
5. The father has been drawing with his son since the age of 7. But at 13 he decided to stop studying, because he began to notice that he was superior to his own father.
6. At the age of 9, Picasso drew his first completed drawing - "Picador" (Le picador), depicting a rider on a horse participating in a bullfight.
7. Already at the age of 13, the first exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso was held.
8. Like many talented people, Picasso was left-handed. After all, the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for creative processes, and therefore it is more developed in them.
9. Picasso was accepted into the La Longha School of Fine Arts when he was 14 years old. He was too young to enter, but at the insistence of his father, he was allowed to take the entrance exams. While most students passed their exams in a month, Pablo passed his entrance exams in just a week.
10. Picasso's first word was "piz, piz", short for lápis, which means "pencil" in Spanish.
11. The first "academic", that is, a completely adult picture, Pablo completed at the age of 15. It is called "First Communion", and depicts his father, mother and sister near the altar.
12. Although Pablo was baptized in the Catholic Church as a child, he later became an atheist.
13. From 1917 to 1924, Picasso created curtains, sets and costumes for several ballets. While his work was poorly received at the time, they are now considered symbols of progress in the art of the time.
14. The artist was eccentric in every aspect of his life. Even his car was tuned specifically for his personality. It was a small Citroen, the design of which completely repeated the cubic style of the artist's paintings. This car was simply impossible not to notice.
16. Picasso loved animals. He had Jan the boxer and Esmeralda the goat, but he had no sentimental feelings for them. Dachshund Lump took a special place in his life: he loved her more than all his women.
17. Especially for his pet, the artist painted a porcelain plate, depicting his pet on it, from which Lump ate from the same table with his owner.
Favorite Dachshund Pablo Picasso Lump
18. Dachshund accompanied Pablo everywhere - when the artist worked in the studio, only Lump had the right to be with the creator at that moment.
Pablo Picasso in his youth
19. Picasso in his youth was addicted to the use of opium, but abruptly gave up this activity when a neighbor - an artist from Germany - committed suicide, unable to withstand withdrawal. Picasso himself lived a long life - 92 years.
20. Pablo said: “If I went into the army, I would become a general. But I went into painting and became Picasso."
21. The reason for the creation of the famous painting "Guernica" was the bombing of the Spanish city of Guernica by the Luftwaffe Air Force, which is part of Nazi Germany. In 3 hours, several thousand bombs were dropped on Guernica, as a result of which the 6,000th city was destroyed. Picasso was so struck by what happened that he expressed his emotions on the canvas. "Guernica" was written in just a month.
22. After a Nazi officer saw a photograph of Pablo Picasso's painting "Guernica", he asked the artist if he did it. Picasso replied: "No, you did it."
23. Books published in different languages are dedicated to Picasso, treatises and poems have been created.
24. Picasso was talented in many areas of art. Despite the fact that everyone remembers Pablo Picasso as a talented artist, nevertheless, he created beautiful sculptures, tried his hand at working with graphics and ceramics. He was also a stage designer, poet, playwright, writer and designer.
25. Pablo Picasso made some graphic works with non-traditional materials: nail polish, lipstick, ballpoint pen.
26. Pictures painted by Picasso belong to the style of "cubism", which, by the way, was invented by the artist himself along with his friend. In fact, the term "cubism" was invented by the French critic Vossel, who noticed that almost all the images on the artist's canvases are made up of small cubes. However, without Picasso there would be no cubism in painting.
27. It is difficult to find another artist whose work would cause so much controversy. The name Pablo Picasso is pronounced by some people with delight, by others with irony and mockery.
28. Pablo Picasso had three illegitimate children: daughter Maya from Marie-Therese Walter; son Claude and daughter Paloma by Françoise Gilot.
29. Based on data on stolen paintings by the London-based Art Loss Register, Pablo Picasso tops the list of artists whose paintings are most popular among thieves.
30. As of 2012, the world's largest register of lost works of art - ALR - 1,147 works by Pablo Picasso are listed as stolen.
Perfume Pablo Picasso
31. Picasso's name has been used on several commercial products, including a car (Citroen Xsara Picasso), perfume (Cognac Hennessy Picasso), and lighters (ST Dupont Picasso).
32. Thanks to his extraordinary talent, Picasso was able to become the richest artist during his lifetime. His paintings were valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
33. In 2015, a new absolute record for works of art sold at open auction was set at the Christie's auction - Pablo Picasso's painting "Women of Algeria (version O)" went for a record 179 thousand dollars.
34. Picasso preferred to live in grand style, he denied himself little. After his death, he left not only a rich legacy of paintings, but also real estate worth more than $ 1.5 billion.
35. According to the 1998 Guinness Book of Records, Picasso is one of the most prolific artists in the world. During his 78-year career, he created over 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints, 34,000 book illustrations, 300 ceramic and sculptural works - over 147,800 works of art in total.
