it was especially hard on Pablo's father plunging him into a lasting depression Pablo took after his mother physically with large dark eyes and black hair that swept across his forehead but he seemed to possess equal amounts of his parents personalities He had his mother s fun loving spirit and was often full of mischief his eyes flashing and his mouth bent into a smirk But like his father he was also moody Pablo's face could cloud over with seriousness in an instant As toddler shapes and colors a enchanted Pablo and the first word he uttered was piz short for lapiz or pencil From the moment his parents placed a pencil in his hand Pablo began to understand the correlation between pictures and the expression of ideas and emo tions Drawing spirals was his way of telling his parents 12
that he wanted a churro a sweet Spanish pastry Shapes and colors Pablo learned could bring the world to his feet hroughout his childhood Pablo spent long hours each day drawing everything that came before his eyes His parents could see that he had talent but they wor ried over Pablo's difficulties and disinterest in school Day after day Pablo s attention drifted away from his lessons to the imaginary world he created with his pen In elementary school reading writing and arithmetic remained troublesome for him a sign that he perhaps had PABLO PICAsso
OPPOSITE In his early teens Picasso experimented with sketches imitating and sometimes parodying newspaper and journal illustrations a learning disability Simple addition was a mystery The only way he seemed to understand the numbers were as shapes the zero like the eye of a pigeon the two like the shape of its wing While he always made friends easily Pablo often preferred the companionship of his paper and pen Given the of influence his artistic father Pablo's leanings toward art seemed quite natural He often listened when artists stopped by to discuss their work and he followed the examples of his father s paintings that hung throughout the family home From an early age Pablo shared his father s artistic passion for pigeons and bullfights He studied his father s model pigeons trying to capture their shape and texture And after an afternoon at the bullfights with his father Pablo spent hours sketching the motion of the bull and matador in their dance with death 14
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