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Picasso Didn't Live A Still Life Power Of Innovation: Artist's questing spirit colored canvas of contemporary art.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: JOSEPH GUINTO
Paris was freezing in the winter of 1901, and Pablo Picasso needed to find someplace warm. Just starting as a professional painter, he didn't have the money to rent a well-heated apartment.
But Picasso (1881-1973) didn't seek comfort chatting with friends in Paris cafes or hanging out in their apartments. He spent his days that winter inside the Louvre museum. There he studied the past masters, making brief notes and sketches to remind him of what he saw.
His determination to learn served him well. Picasso is credited with moving 20th century art in new directions. He's tagged as the inventor of more than one entirely new form of painting.
His creations didn't come from pure imagination. They came from repetitious reworking of his art and study of the works of others. Picasso didn't just paint a new work. He first sketched it endlessly, practicing his craft. And he wasn't afraid to borrow bits of style from others he deemed successful.
"Picasso had shown his ability to steal what interested him from different styles and put it all together so that it became his own harmonious creation," wrote Roland Penrose in "Picasso: His Life and Work."
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