Artist

Picasso’s Protégé

 Chris Lybeck

 Acrylic Paint/2023  

The name of my final art project is Picasso’s Protégé. I created this piece of art using Acrylic as my medium. My final art project has so many different shapes and colors, a lot like my imagination. So much is always running through my head, whether it’s about my future or my past. In this piece of art I’m trying to captivate that feeling of eccentric, unknown colors from the future, as well as the more relaxing colors from a known past. If we allow ourselves to be too tied up in our past, or too focused on our future, it can cause us to mess up and lose sight of what’s right in front of us.

As you could probably tell by the name of my final art project. Pablo Picasso inspired me to create my project. One of Picasso’s most famous styles is his abstract art style. He never created the same piece twice and brought a whole new look to the term “original” in the art world. A lot of artists were creating realist pieces at the time so Picassos pieces were a very unique twist to the typical art culture. I like to think my piece of art captures that same aspect of unique and creative looks that he used so many ways. What I tried to accomplish in my project was creating a completely unique and interesting. I essentially was using my inner Picasso and trying to create my own piece of abstract art.

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He was a child prodigy who first started painting when he was 9yrs old. He was born to father Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco and mother Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was an artist in his own right mainly painting birds and big game animals. He also taught art classes. He started schooling his son when he was 7 and found he was a very adept pupil. By the time he was 13 his artist expertise had far surpassed his fathers.  As Picasso progressed in his life he ended up creating over 50,000 pieces of art. In 1895, when Picasso was 14 years old, his family moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he quickly applied to the city's prestigious School of Fine Arts. Although the school typically only accepted students several years his senior, Picasso's entrance exam was so extraordinary that he was granted an exception and admitted. After sometime, Picasso developed a relationship with the much younger art student Francoise Gilot. Together, they produced a son, Claude, in 1947, and a daughter Paloma, in 1949. Their relationship was doomed like so many of Picasso’s previous relationships however, due to his abuse. In 1961 at 79, Picasso married his second and last wife, 27yr old Jacqueline Roque. She proved to be one if his career’s greatest inspirations. Picasso painted 70 portraits of her during the final 17 years he was alive.