In this book one can find many artworks created by Picasso between 1881 and 1914. The first style of the artist was influenced by the works of El Greco, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec, artists that he discovered when he was a student in Barcelona. Picasso, fascinated by the psychological expression during his Blue period (1901-1904), expresses his own mental misery: his genre paintings, still-lifes and portraits were full of melancholy. Later, Picasso began to paint acrobats during his Circus period. After his voyage to Paris, in 1904, his aestheticism evolved considerably. Cezanne’s influence and Spanish culture led him to Cubism, which is characterised by the multiple points of view over the surface of the painting. Apart from a selection of Picasso’s first paintings, this book presents several drawings, sculptures and photographs.

Книга «Пикассо» — биография выдающегося художника XX столетия. В ней представлены все этапы жизни художника, истоки различных направлений в его творчестве и анализируются мотивы, побуждавшие художника менять стили на протяжении его творческой жизни. Большое место занимает описание личной жизни художника. Для русского читателя биография интересна тем, что помогает освободиться от однобокого взгляда на П.◦Пикассо, увидеть его во всем многообразии созданных им полотен, глубже понять его творчество и роль искусства вообще. Автор биографии Р.◦Пенроуз — писатель и художник — в 1936 году познакомился с Пикассо на Международной выставке сюрреализма в Лондоне, здесь завязалась их дружба, продолжавшаяся почти 40 лет, до самой смерти Пикассо. Пенроузом написаны 10 монографий о Пикассо.

Les Demoiselles d Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines-with this painting, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907.Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, driven by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world, in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the suprematism of Malevich to the constructivism of Tatlin. Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr. Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity s crucial moment, and permits the reader to rediscover, through their biographies, the principal representatives of the movement.