Pablo Picasso is one of the most well known painters in history. His images are widely recognized throughout the world, and in his home town of Madrid, Spain, hotel walls, businesses and cafes are alive with the images of this son of the Spanish city. Many artists traveling through Madrid will often make the pilgrimage to the house in which he was born. This is now the site of the Foundation Picasso. On of more famous museums, housing much more of an extensive collection of Picasso’s work is located near by, the Palacio de Buenavista. This is one of the favorite locations of art lovers, fans of Picasso, and fans of modern art in general, located in the country of Spain. For not only are the images created by Picasso brilliantly colored and finely executed, the way that this man painted changed the course of the history of modern art. Picasso is considered as a true genius in the art world, and innovator of life.
When Picasso was growing up in Malaga, he was recognized by adults, including his father, as a young kid with incredible innate talent, a prodigy. His early work, much of it accomplished by the time he was still a very young man, is housed in the Museo de Picasso located in the city of Barcelona. His early drawings resemble and convey the three dimensionality and the details of sculpture. Picasso was somewhat of a young rebel, preferring to hang out in the cafes where the intellectuals and the working artist gathered rather than in school and art class. He later went to Paris where he fell in love with the works of his contemporaries, Courbet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Manet. Picasso was always one who appreciated, respected, and admired the works of the painters of his day, and although he was influenced by the work, he still succeeded in following his own path and creating his own unique style. His paintings now hang all over the world, in the museums and the galleries, however there is nothing so spectacular as the viewing of these works in the home town of the master painter who created them.
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