Juan Manuel Arriaga's Art Portfolio: 2015

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Artist Statement

Every time I feel upset I think about art, and I start feeling better. Art makes my life easier because it always inspires me. Art is a good type of life where we can express our feelings, and talk with our art work. Art can change our life in many different ways. I don’t know what I would do with my life without art, because art is an important part of my life.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born in October 25,1881, and died in April 8, 1973. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Picasso is one of the most famous artists of the 20^th century, he is known for the Cubist movement, the invention of the constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the different styles that helped develop and explore.

Picasso demonstrated great artistic skills in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner trough his childhood and adolescence. His style changed during the decade of the 20^th century. Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, a series of names honoring saints and relatives. He was born in the city of Malaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco. Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were “piz piz”, a shortening of lapis a Spanish word for “pencil”.

In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister dies of diphtheria. After her death, his family moved to Barcelona.

The Old Guitarist is an old painting of Pablo Picasso created in the late 1903 and early 1904. It is an old man with threadbare clothing weakly hunched over his guitar, playing in the streets of Barcelona, Spain. This famous painting is currently display in the Art Institute of Chicago.