Interesting Facts About Pablo Picasso
If you are searching for interesting facts about Pablo Picasso, there are a mumber of facts that are generally overlooked because of the dominance of material written about his artistic forms. What makes interesting and odd facts about Picasso is some of his unusual characteristics as a person, and some of his personal views and practices.
One interesting fact is that Pablo didn't have just a first and second given name but had several as indicated here: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. And, some of these given names honoured various saints and relatives. Picasso was born in Spain in the city of Malaga and was the first child of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez.
Interesting Facts About Pablo Picasso:
Picasso started drawing from the age of seven with artistic training provided by his father. His father, Ruiz, believed that proper training required a very disciplined approach which entailed copying the masters, and by drawing the human body using plaster casts of the human body as a guiding principle. Young Pablo became so involved in his painting that he neglected his normal classwork.
Pablo's father, in and around the period of 1891- 1894 believed that his son had surpassed his own ability and was reputed to have vowed to give up his own painting.
Pablo Picasso's sister died in 1895 from diptheria. After her death, the family moved once again and ended up in Barcelona so his father could work at their School of Fine Arts. Picasso thrived in Barcelona and often regarded it as his true home especially in times of personal sadness or nostalgia. And, while here, Pablo's father convinced officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance exam for the advanced art class. And, while this entrance process often took other students a month, Picasso was able to complete it in one week. Picasso was only thirteen at the time of admittance.
In 1897, at the age of 16, Picasso went out on his own, but his difficulties accepting formal instruction caused him to decide that it was time to leave class only having attended a very short time. After studying art in Madrid, Picasso made his first trip to Paris in 1900, then the art capital of Europe, where he met his first Parisian friend, the journalist and poet Max Jacob. Jacob helped Picasso not only learn the French language but also its literature. They soon shared an apartment together but all was not rosey. An interesting anomaly with this friendship was that Max slept during the night but Picasso painted at night. Many stories about artists tell of undue hardship but Picasso and his friend experienced even more and Picasso even resorted to burn much of his work just to keep their small room warm.
Another interesting fact about Pablo Picasso is that he was once brought into police headquarters in Paris co-accused of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Both he and his friend were later exonerated.