Who Was Pablo Picasso? by True Kelley

Who Was Pablo Picasso? Reviews

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  imane

  عندما سئل بيكاسو لماذا بعض لوحاته غير مفهومة اجاب العالم بلا معنى ...لماذا تريدون مني ان ارسم لوحات ذات معنى.
  لوحاته في غاية الجمال هناك من يمتلك موهبة رؤية ما لا يستطيع الاخرون رؤيته.
  
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  Janete on hiatus due health issues

  I'm re-reading some children's books in English, because now I subscribe to scribd.com and I found
  on this site, several audios of books that I have read. And I'm not feeling very well to read new foreign language books.
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  MissyLynne

  Simple, basic intro to Picasso.
  
  Though I know of him and his art, I didn't know much about him. This book introduced me to who he was and what sort of artist he was.
  
  Interesting man but I still dislike his "art".
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  Genevieve Bomes

  A very interesting true story about Pablo Picasso. Even though this is meant for kids I learned a lot about him that I didn't know.
  A great quick read that is well written.
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  Wade

  Pablo Picasso has the longest name Lily and I have ever heard: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Lily likes that Picasso did artwork his own way, “he got famous even though some people didn't like his art.” We both liked that he worked eclectically in many different mediums; painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, engraving, etc. Early in his career he was so poor that he couldn't afford furniture so he painted some on the walls of his apartment. Lily says, “Pablo painted in blue when he was sad, then painted in colors when he was happier.”
  
  We like that he promoted peace and cared about poor people, we were happy to learn that his poster of a dove in 1949 helped popularize the modern international symbol of peace. Lily especially liked to hear how excited the American soldiers were to meet Picasso after the war, some soldiers arrived at his studio so tired they fell asleep there, “lots of people thought he was cool.”
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  AMY

  105 pages. This biography of a famous artist was very interesting. There were lots of stories from his childhood and youth, small sketches of his famous paintings, sculptures, etc. throughout the book. It is well-written and gives a read a great overall understanding of his life and work. Highly recommended for Grades 4-5.
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  Sam Motes

  Another quick Who was read I shared with my Teen and PreTeen girls. They fully enjoyed it, thought the youngest was getting very upset with the constant carosel of new women coming in and out of his life.
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  Shahd Rdawi

  Audiobook
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  Lionheart

  Rated 5 stars
  Ages 12+
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  Reving

  
  https://revingsblog.blogspot.com/2018...
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  Emma

  What a ladies man!
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  John Velo

  A very enjoyable audiobook.
  
  My partner and I listened to it on the way during a short weekend getaway trip.
  
  It was quick, very informative and had great structure.
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  Teri

  For those kids like pets, they must find themselves in the book. Picasso is a pet lover. Apart from dogs and turtle, he even had a rat, a monkey and a goat. He drew and invented his artistic language and symbols for the subject. He drew what he thought not what he saw. He tried to use different media apart from paint brush, collage, and etching. Kids would be very familiar with his art projects in reading the books as these are used in VA lessons nowadays. Kids might not know how hard did he try at first.
  
  He drew industrially from a young age. He painted continuously with Baroque for 5 years. He might be the luckiest artist at the time. He was famous, rich and successful. A friend committed suicide. And a lot more were in living without enough food on the table. Even Picasso was once very poor with not enough food to eat that his dog, Frika, pulled a string of sausage to him. What does this tell us?
  
  The life of Picasso is inspirational not only to kids. His love of art, his hard-work, his lovers and his courage to do something different, in his own way. His is a successful story and not always, we have one. Does it matter?
  
  
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  Amanda

  Another great artist biography, with information on Pablo Picasso's personal life (quite a tumultuous love life) and his work as an artist, beginning as a child prodigy. It's super interesting to me how his style and medium changed constantly over the years, how he followed no predictability or rules, and this is described in detail.
  "When he was a child, (Picasso) could draw as well as a talented grown-up. But the older her got, the more he wanted to make art like a child."
  Having just read Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?, who is attributed only 15 finished artworks - Picasso is quite a contrast; he finished roughly 50,000 works.
  This book has plenty of information on the art he explored; cubism, modernism, collage, surrealism, etching, abstract sculpture, pottery and linoleum block prints.
  There is also information on world history throughout his lifetime which included two world wars and the war in Spain (General Francisco Franco and the German bombing of Guernica).
  My knowledge was expanded, a biography success.
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  Grazie Mille

  Pretty good book! Picasso had an extremely long name, an extremely long career, and an extremely long list of lovers...
  Seven women were listed, including one who was only 17. Sheesh.
  
  Francoise was the only one with whom he had 2 children, and Maybe my favorite:
  When Picasso was 71 years old, Francoise left him. He couldn't believe it! No woman had ever left him before. He had always been the one to call it quits.
  Ha, well let this be the first time then. She went on to write a memoir about their life together (Life with Picasso) and as of March 2022 is still alive! She's currently 100 years old. 😲
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  David Rough

  I liked this biography of Picasso although I thought it was too brief and too many gaps were left open to obtain a good flow of this artist's life. It sounds like Pablo was quite a womanizer, so maybe the holes were necessary to be appropriate for young readers. I have never liked his strange cubism style, but I gained insight into his purpose of trying to capture many angles of a face simultaneously.
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  Charlie

  It’s hard to give this a theme because it’s nonfiction but I would say the theme is pursue your dreams and keep persisting. I ours say this because he lost basically his entire family and married many women and divorced nearly all of them and yet he still is one of the greatest artist ever in o lay a brush on paper.
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  Amber

  I love these books. They give me enough detail without going too deep and drawn out. They are the cliff notes of non-fiction.
  
  I knew a bit about Pablo Picasso beforehand, but there was so much more I didn't know. I knew his style was eclectic, but I didn't know it was that diverse. Also, I had no idea he had so many wives.
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  Nguyễn Trọng Nhân

  Born to be a brilliant artist. But in the end, all the thing i have remember ab him in funny mood is his very ability to love and marry a lot of woman in his life:)). Like it said in the book:”he didn’t care of what other people think ab him, he was just self-centered”. Yeah and i think that maybe one of the keys leading to his greatest success.
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  Stacey Walden

  A nice overview of Picasso’s life written simply for a child to understand. It does cover topics like his friend’s attempted murder/suicide and Picasso’s many wives/girlfriends, so the content is more suitable for middle school age level.
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  James Biser

  This is another good short biography. It is interesting how Picasso was the opposite of a starving artist. He had as much money as he wanted. He saw his success while he was still alive and lived a different style of life than most people.