Picasso: A Biography

Author: Zhou Shifeng
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Picasso's gaze is interrogative, deeply questioning an alien world with the eyes of a stranger. In this interrogation, there is doubt, wonder, and hidden terror, and he conveys both wonder and terror to us. Picasso is world-famous for his pioneering work in Cubism, yet he was not just a Cubist painter. He always moved with his time, shifting from Cubism to Neoclassicism, then to Surrealism and Expressionism. In almost every artistic movement he engaged with, he achieved remarkable success. Anyone who has a slight knowledge of the history of modern world art knows the name of Pablo Picasso. Most people who know the name of Picasso are unaware of his works. He is a truly peculiar painter. He used his entire body of work to describe a Picasso, because almost all his works are candid self-portraits of himself. His subject has always been himself, his lovers, his friends, his admirers—in short, all of these constitute Picasso's exquisite, delicate, and melancholic personal world. Therefore, without understanding Picasso's peculiar life experiences, it is indeed impossible to truly understand his works.