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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9 9 JOIE LON QUOTE He collected musical instrument cases and old chipped ugly frames Pale prints with frames made of straw hung on the dining room wall He prided himself on seeing charm in things which would have seemed ridiculous to most people Fernande Olivier Picasso's companion in Paris
Under his father s watchful eye and constant en couragement Pablo perfected his drawing skills but as he grew older he saw differences between his father s art and his His father followed all of own who the academic rules of painting created docile still lifes and landscapes to decorate people's homes Knowing that he wanted to do more with his talent the teenager broke away from his father's rigid ideas about art and relied on his own creative impulses When José realized that his 14 year old son had already reached his own level of artistic skill he handed over his paints and brushes symbolically stepping aside to let Pablo's genius flourish PABLO PICAsso 17
