At the time Picasso created a sensation.
In the life of the famous artist have been so many incredible stories that it is now extremely difficult to establish which of them really happened. He was prone to hoaxes and the same fact is each time presented in new ways, adding new details. With the name Pablo Picasso due to many myths that many true stories sound like fiction.
Mystery of history pursued by Picasso from the moment of his birth. Because the newborn did not shout and did not cry, everyone felt that the boy was born dead. His uncle Salvador had resorted to very unusual methods of resuscitation: breathed out in a child’s face cigar smoke, he grimaced and screamed. Did all this really is – no one knows but the artist himself used to tell this story and it was added, that’s the reason whole life revolved around cigarettes.
They say that the real name of Picasso can neither remember nor pronounce. Indeed, in accordance with the Spanish tradition, at baptism the child was given a series of names of saints and relatives of the family. Full name of artist Pablo Diego josé Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de Los Remedios Crispin Crispiniano de La Santísima Trinidad Ruiz and Picasso.
A major role in the creation of myths about Picasso played his mother. She has said: “He was so beautiful like an angel and a demon at the same time that it was hard to look away”. The father, meanwhile, created a different legend about the precocious talent of the child Prodigy. Say that to draw Picasso learned before speaking, and when the boy was 13 years old, was organized his first exhibition and his father is a failed artist and first teacher of painting gave his son his brushes and confessed that he outgrew it in skill. The truth was that his first painting the boy really painted in 9 years, but a Prodigy of his name it was hard: even to the moment of graduation from school he could hardly read and considered.
In one the mother of Picasso’s certainly not exaggerated: “my son, who created only for himself and nobody else can’t be happy no woman”. The artist had many mistresses, and he treated them quite brutally and even showed sadistic tendencies. Cost the woman to become ill or get pregnant, he immediately lost interest in her. And when Marie-Therese Walter and Dora Maar gave him a choice – either one or the other – he asked the women themselves to figure out whom to go. They got into a real fight, and Picasso this moment later called one of the most beautiful memories of your life and dedicated his painting “Bird in a cage”. Two of his lovers committed suicide: Marie-Therese Walter hanged herself 4 years after his death, and Jacqueline Roque, went to the monastery and after 13 years was shot.
For years, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall became friends. But one evening after dinner, Picasso had the temerity to ask, when Chagall was going to return to Russia. He was not embarrassed: “Immediately after You. I hear they love You very much. You can not say about Your work. Try to work there, and I’ll see how it will work for You”. Picasso retorted: “I Think in Your case it is a business issue. You go there, if only this wouldn’t involve money.” The story of a friendship between two great artists ended.
Picasso once in a conversation with his friend, the poet G. Apollinaire said that the Louvre should be burnt. And in 1911 from the Museum and stole the painting by da Vinci “Mona Lisa”. Apollinaire without thinking pointed to the artist as the possible kidnapper. Also summoned for questioning, and rumors about the involvement of Picasso to this theft. Of course, later it turned out that he had nothing to do with it, but the myth remained in the history.
They say the artist had a lot of strange phobias. He didn’t like to get a haircut and didn’t trust this work to the hairdressers: cut myself and cropped hair was kept as a divine part of yourself. In addition, Picasso was afraid to go into the army, was afraid of cancer, afraid to be laughed at because of the disproportionate figures.
Picasso called one of the most expensive artists in the world, and this is no exaggeration. In 2008 the amount of sales of his paintings amounted to 262 million dollars. In 2010 the painting “Nude, green leaves and bust” was sold for 106,482 million dollars. Becoming a millionaire during his lifetime, Picasso never lend and are not engaged in charity.
