How Did Pablo Picasso Impact The World

Pablo Picasso is one of the most important figures o the 20th century. In terms of the art he portrayed in this Period of time. Before the age of 50 Pablo Picasso had become one of the most well known names in modern art. Picasso was a very creative artist. He made his art to where the viewer has to really get a good understanding from their viewpoint to understand his art. Picasso’s art had an very distinctive style. A style of art to where most artist of that time couldn’t imagine doing. No other artist had an impact on the world like Picasso’s. Picasso was the co-creator of cubism along with Georges Braque. In the turn of the 20th century , Pablo Picasso moved to Paris, France. The cultural center of European art to open his own studio. Art critics and historians typically break Picasso’s adult career into distinct periods, the first of which lasted from 1901 to 1904 and is called his “Blue Period”. Picasso’s art was blue and he used blue to describe his emotions and feelings. The color blue described the depression he was going through because of the loss of his close friend,

At once destructive and creative, Cubism shocked, upheld and fascinated the art world. "It made me feel as if someone was drinking gasoline and spitting fire," Braque said, explaining that he was shocked when he first viewed Picasso's "Les Demoiselles," but quickly became amussed with Cubism, seeing the new style as a revolutionary movement. French writer and critic Max Jacob, a good friend of both Picasso and painter Juan Gris, called Cubism "the 'Harbinger Comet' of the new century," stating, "Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an