A Life of Picasso-Book Review

David Richardson introduces to the reader a clearly informed biography of Picasso's growth and failures. Continually engaging biography neither glorifies Picasso nor paints him as a brute. Conversational in tone, the book assembles a truly impressive amount of material. It's one of the few books truly essential to understanding Picasso's artistic and spiritual growth.

Pablo Picasso was born to a poor family in southern Spain in 1881. He started as a child prodigy and ended as the greatest painter of his century. After some early training with his father, a local drawing teacher, Picasso showed that he had thoroughly grasped the ways that artists make a picture look ?realistic? at a very young age. H

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