Pablo Picasso’s “Realism & The Early Years” (1892-1906), Part II
Picasso began as an artist at the amazingly young age of thirteen. During these early years, he developed a realistic style that depicts a naturalistic color palette and brush strokes and the rendering of everyday subject matter. Picasso enjoyed painting portraits of his family, loved ones, and scenes inspired by his faith, evident by his rendition of the work entitled “The First Communion,” a painting of his sister, Lola, from 1896. Picasso continues in this style of painting for the entire 1890s. However, by the turn of the century, Picasso had entered his Blue period, as the Modernist Movement began and ended what is now known as The Early Years.
