What is the best biography of Picasso?

“The best biography of Picasso.” Patrick O’Brian’s outstanding biography of Picasso is here available in paperback for the first time. It is the most comprehensive yet written, and the only biography fully to appreciate the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso’s character and art.

What is Picasso most popular painting?

Guernica (1937)
Guernica (1937) Besides being Picasso most famous painting, Guernica is also one of the world’s most famous and moving antiwar statements.

What artists inspired Picasso the most?

Cubism (1909-1919) It was a confluence of influences – from Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh, to archaic and tribal art – that encouraged Picasso to lend his figures more weight and structure around 1907.

Did Picasso have any famous friends?

In Paris, Picasso entertained a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including André Breton, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Alfred Jarry and Gertrude Stein.

What style is Picasso known for?

Cubism
Cubism. Cubism was an artistic style pioneered by Picasso and his friend and fellow painter Georges Braque.

Who is better Picasso or Van Gogh?

Picasso outlived Van Gogh by 55 years but what Vincent accomplished in his short career is astounding. They are both giants of the art world and both worth seeing. Of the two exhibitions: Van Gogh is the better painter but Picasso has the better paintings.

What did Van Gogh think Picasso?

“Of all the artists with whom Picasso identified, Van Gogh is the least often cited but probably the one that meant the most to him in later years. He talked of him as his patron saint, talked of him with intense admiration and compassion, never with any of his habitual irony or mockery.

Who was Picasso best friend?

Casagemas
Casagemas (1880–1901), the son of the American consul general in Barcelona, was a year older than Picasso, his best friend. A painter and poet, he accompanied Picasso to Paris to visit the World’s Fair in autumn 1900.