1901 : PICASSO EXHIBITED IN PARIS:
On June 24, 1901, the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's
artwork opens at a gallery on Paris' rue Lafitte, a street known for
its prestigious art galleries. The precocious 19-year-old Spaniard was
at the time a relative unknown outside Barcelona, but he had already
produced hundreds of paintings. The 75 works displayed at Picasso's
first Paris exhibition offered moody, representational paintings by a
young artist with obvious talent.
Pablo Picasso, widely acknowledged as the dominant figure in
20th-century art, was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. His father was a
professor of drawing and bred Picasso for a career in academic art. He
had his first exhibit at age 13 and later quit art school so he could
experiment full-time with modern art styles. He went to Paris for the
first time in 1900, and in 1901 he returned with 100 of his paintings,
aiming to win an exhibition. He was introduced to Ambroise Vollard, a
dealer who had sponsored Paul Cezanne, and Vollard immediately agreed
to a show at his gallery after seeing the paintings. From street
scenes to landscapes, prostitutes to society ladies, Picasso's
subjects were diverse, and the young artist received a favorable
review from the few Paris art critics who saw the show. He stayed in
Paris for the rest of the year and later returned to Paris to settle
permanently.
The work of Picasso, which comprises more than 50,000 paintings,
drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics produced over 80 years,
is described in a series of overlapping periods. His first notable
period--the "blue period"--began shortly after his first Paris
exhibit. In works such as The Old Guitarist (1903), Picasso painted in
blue tones to evoke the melancholy world of the poor. The blue period
was followed by the "rose period," in which he often depicted circus
scenes, and then by Picasso's early work in sculpture. In 1907,
Picasso painted the groundbreaking work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
which, with its fragmented and distorted representation of the human
form, broke from previous European art. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
demonstrated the influence on Picasso of both African mask art and
Paul Cezanne and is seen as a forerunner of the Cubist movement
founded by Picasso and the French painter Georges Braque in 1909.
In Cubism, which is divided in two phases, analytical and synthetic,
Picasso and Braque established the modern principle that artwork need
not represent reality to have artistic value. Major Cubist works by
Picasso included his costumes and sets for Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes (1917) and The Three Musicians (1921). Picasso and Braque's
Cubist experiments also resulted in the invention of several new
artistic techniques, including collage.
After Cubism, Picasso explored classical and Mediterranean themes, and
images of violence and anguish increasingly appeared in his work. In
1937, this trend culminated in the masterpiece Guernica, a monumental
work that evoked the horror and suffering endured by the Basque town
of Guernica when it was destroyed by German war planes during the
Spanish Civil War. Picasso remained in Paris during the Nazi
occupation but was fervently opposed to fascism and after the war
joined the French Communist Party.
Picasso's work after World War II is less studied than his earlier
creations, but he continued to work feverishly and enjoyed commercial
and critical success. He produced fantastical works, experimented with
ceramics, and painted variations on the works of other masters in the
history of art. Known for his intense gaze and domineering
personality, he had a series of intense and overlapping love affairs
in his lifetime. He continued to produce art with undiminished force
until his death in 1973 at the age of 91.
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1973 : Eamon de Valera resigns
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On June 24, 1901, the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's
artwork opens at a gallery on Paris' rue Lafitte, a street known for
its prestigious art galleries. The precocious 19-year-old Spaniard was
at the time a relative unknown outside Barcelona, but he had already
produced hundreds of paintings. The 75 works displayed at Picasso's
first Paris exhibition offered moody, representational paintings by a
young artist with obvious talent.
Pablo Picasso, widely acknowledged as the dominant figure in
20th-century art, was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. His father was a
professor of drawing and bred Picasso for a career in academic art. He
had his first exhibit at age 13 and later quit art school so he could
experiment full-time with modern art styles. He went to Paris for the
first time in 1900, and in 1901 he returned with 100 of his paintings,
aiming to win an exhibition. He was introduced to Ambroise Vollard, a
dealer who had sponsored Paul Cezanne, and Vollard immediately agreed
to a show at his gallery after seeing the paintings. From street
scenes to landscapes, prostitutes to society ladies, Picasso's
subjects were diverse, and the young artist received a favorable
review from the few Paris art critics who saw the show. He stayed in
Paris for the rest of the year and later returned to Paris to settle
permanently.
The work of Picasso, which comprises more than 50,000 paintings,
drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics produced over 80 years,
is described in a series of overlapping periods. His first notable
period--the "blue period"--began shortly after his first Paris
exhibit. In works such as The Old Guitarist (1903), Picasso painted in
blue tones to evoke the melancholy world of the poor. The blue period
was followed by the "rose period," in which he often depicted circus
scenes, and then by Picasso's early work in sculpture. In 1907,
Picasso painted the groundbreaking work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
which, with its fragmented and distorted representation of the human
form, broke from previous European art. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
demonstrated the influence on Picasso of both African mask art and
Paul Cezanne and is seen as a forerunner of the Cubist movement
founded by Picasso and the French painter Georges Braque in 1909.
In Cubism, which is divided in two phases, analytical and synthetic,
Picasso and Braque established the modern principle that artwork need
not represent reality to have artistic value. Major Cubist works by
Picasso included his costumes and sets for Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes (1917) and The Three Musicians (1921). Picasso and Braque's
Cubist experiments also resulted in the invention of several new
artistic techniques, including collage.
After Cubism, Picasso explored classical and Mediterranean themes, and
images of violence and anguish increasingly appeared in his work. In
1937, this trend culminated in the masterpiece Guernica, a monumental
work that evoked the horror and suffering endured by the Basque town
of Guernica when it was destroyed by German war planes during the
Spanish Civil War. Picasso remained in Paris during the Nazi
occupation but was fervently opposed to fascism and after the war
joined the French Communist Party.
Picasso's work after World War II is less studied than his earlier
creations, but he continued to work feverishly and enjoyed commercial
and critical success. He produced fantastical works, experimented with
ceramics, and painted variations on the works of other masters in the
history of art. Known for his intense gaze and domineering
personality, he had a series of intense and overlapping love affairs
in his lifetime. He continued to produce art with undiminished force
until his death in 1973 at the age of 91.
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1675 : King Philip's War begins
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5119
1812 : Napoleon's Grande Armee invades Russia
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5120
1973 : Eamon de Valera resigns
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5121
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