The Biography of an Artist

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This paper contends that the biographical aspects of an artist provides one of the most important dimensions in the history and study of art and allows one to trace the stylistic development within an artist's overall career. The paper discusses two specific artists who are generally viewed as masters of their craft, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, both of whom greatly influenced the artistic world in which they lived and continue to do so in the present time.

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"Early in life, doubt and dissatisfaction with contemporary artistic formulas enabled Picasso to discover that a search for beauty according to the standards in which he had been brought up was not the aim he wished to pursue. The brilliance of his talent in his youth and the ease with which he absorbed the work of other great contemporary artists could have tempted him to become satisfied with the success that came to him at last after years of poverty in Barcelona and Paris, but the strength of his powers of expression, coupled with an unusual degree of courage, brought a crisis which forced him to abandon the easy road to fame and plunge perilously into new forms of artistic creation."

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