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When Picasso became Picasso: the storyplot of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came up to Paris and made himself in to the most influential designer of the 20th century In 1900, an 18-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso made his first visit to Paris. It was in this glittering capital of the international fine art world that, after troubled many years of poverty and disregard, he emerged as the leader of your bohemian music group of painters, sculptors, and poets. Fueled by opium and alcohol, inspired by raucous late-night discussions at the Lapin Agile cabaret, Picasso and his friends settled to tremble up the world. For the majority of these years Picasso lived and worked in a squalid tenement known as the Bateau Lavoir, in the heart of picturesque Montmartre. Here he satisfied his first real love, Fernande Olivier, a muse whom he would transform in his fine art from Symbolist goddess to Cubist monster. We were holding years of have difficulty, often of desperation, but Picasso later viewed back in it as the happiest of his long life. Recognition came slowly and gradually: first in the avant-garde circles in which he journeyed, and later among a tiny group of daring collectors, like the Americans Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1906, Picasso commenced the vast, disturbing masterpiece known as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Inspired by the groundbreaking painting of Paul Cezanne and the startling inventiveness of African and tribal sculpture, Picasso created a work that captured and defined the disorienting connection with modernity itself. The painting turned out so surprising that even his friends assumed he'd gone mad. Only his colleague George Braque recognized what Picasso was looking to do. Over another couple of years they teamed up to make Cubism, the most groundbreaking and influential motion in 20th-century fine art. This is the story of the imaginative genius with one creative gift. It really is filled up with heartbreak and triumph, despair and delirium, everything performed out against the backdrop of the world's most fascinating city.
