The painter with the most works - Picasso

From the 1860s to the 1880s, Paris, as the center of Western literature and art, was full of painters, such as Monet, Degas, Reallo, Gogen, Sisley, Ingle and others. These painters reversed the conservative ideas and expression methods of the academic school at that time, pursued a new creative method of light and color change, and advocated reflecting the momentary impression of the natural world, which was called impressionism.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a generation of masters with novel and innovative painting methods appeared in the Western painting world - Picasso Picasso of Spaniard. Born into a family of drawing teachers, he was influenced by art since childhood and loved painting. His style changed again and again, his early works were concise, and after middle age, he tended to be realistic, and in his later years he produced a large number of sculptures and pottery. He has both a strong ability to be realistic and has a high artistic attainment, and is a famous painter with very rich and prolific creative activities. In his nearly 80-year career, he has created and designed an estimated 13,500 paintings, 100,000 nuclear engravings of prints, 34,000 illustrations of books and periodicals, and 200 works of engraving or pottery. Some people have made a rough estimate of his artwork, which is worth as much as $690 million.

Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in malaga, a southern Spanish port, the son of a lesser-known painter who taught at a school of fine arts. In 1895, his father accepted a teaching position at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, and the family soon moved to Barcelona. Picasso learned to draw from his father at an early age and showed extraordinary talent at an early age. After moving to Barcelona, he was admitted to the local art school with honors. At the age of 15, he painted a painting of Science and Benevolence, was accepted to participate in a national art exhibition in Madrid, and won a gold medal at the Malaga Fine Arts Competition. In the autumn of that year, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. However, he only read for one year, returned to Barcelona to recuperate from scarlet fever, and thus ended the heavy era.

In barcelona in the 1890s, the most enlightened city in Spain, some cultural people often gathered in Barcelona's "Four Cats" café. When Picasso returned, he immediately became a regular visitor to the "Four Cats" café. Here, he was exposed to various cultural schools and currents of thought, and held his first exhibition of paintings in his life, which brought him a great reputation. Local newspapers praised the young painter for "showing amazing talent in the use of brushes and pencils". In this way, Picasso began his painting career.

Picasso said of his art: "I paint like someone else writes an autobiography. These drawings, whether completed or unfinished, are all pages in my diary. "Picasso's life was bumpy. From 1900 onwards, he went to Paris three times, but returned to Spain because his paintings could not be sold and his life was not settled. It was not until April 1904 that he went to Paris for the fourth time and settled down in a dilapidated apartment known as the "laundry".

During this period, his life was full of bitterness, and his paintings depicted the tragedy of life at the bottom of society. "The Poor Man by the Sea", "Life", and "The Laundry Woman" are all works of this period. Soon, living in a circus near the "laundry", Picasso became sympathetic to the lives of circus performers, and works from this period such as "The House of the Clown in Flower Clothes" showed the tragic lives of actors.

In 1905, Picasso became acquainted with American art collectors and Russian industrialists, who bought paintings from him, and Picasso finally got out of poverty. After that, he visited Russia, France, Italy and other countries, constantly exploring art, and the style of his paintings also changed greatly. He was in Paris during World War II. His famous anti-fascist work Guernica was designed to expose the crimes of fascism. After the war, most of Picasso's paintings were based on cheering peace and opposing war. In 1949, 1950 and 1952, at the request of the World Congress for the Defence of Peace, Picasso repeatedly provided the world-famous "Dove of Peace" to the Congress. He was industrious and worked until April 7, 1943. He died on 8 April at the age of 92. Picasso's life was a life of constant pursuit and exploration, and although his paintings are still controversial to this day, his spirit of inquiry is undoubtedly worth emulating.