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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. His father was Jose Ruiz Blanco and his mother, Maria Picasso Lopez. Later he adopted his mothers more distinguished maiden name, Picasso, as his own. Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, and is internationally considered the greatest artist of the 20th century. ... Pablo Picasso was not only an extremely influential artist but was also politically active.
This paper will focus on the analytic stage of Cubism, during which time Picasso painted The Fan, Summer, 1911. ... Picasso was not interested in beauty, and he considered color an element of beauty. ...
Picasso began Portrait of Gertrude Stein in winter, 1905-1906. She had posed 70 or 80 times for Picasso; he could not get it the way he wanted it. ... Picasso was highly influenced at this time by Cézannes flatness of the picture plane, the neglect of accurate proportions and the portrayal of different perspectives. Picasso followed the advice of Paul Cézanne who, in 1904, said artists should treat nature "in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone". ... He was also moving away from realistic portrayals the same time Picasso was painting Portrait of Gertrude Stein. This combination of experiences starts Picasso on a path that would radically change his art. This radical change--moving away from realistic portrayal--led into the painting of The Fan.
At the end of 1907, George Braque met Picasso at the unveiling of Les Demoiselles dAvignon. ... Working together between 1908 and 1911, the object was broken down, examined and simplified to elements of structure. ...
In the summer of 1909, Picasso painted The Reservoir. ... Rhythm became an important element in the works of Picasso such as in The Guitarist, Summer, 1910, where the geometric structure closely follows the bodys rhythms. ...
Picasso took care to leave markers such as objects, sometimes as metephors, here and there inside the complex space and structure of planes. ... In our careful scrutiny of The Fan, Summer, 1911, we find such markers to guide us through.
In 1911, Picasso made his first trip to Céret with Fernande, the Braque family, and Max Jacob. ... Fernande and Picasso were having trouble after a seven year relationship, and she left him by 1912. ...
The most prominant thing in the news in 1911 was the Triangle Factory Fire in New York City killing 146 women and young girls. ... This is obvious because of the use of the word fan in the title and the image of a fan close to the center of the painting.
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