Pablo Picasso’s Self Portrait Evolution From Age 15 To Age 90 

yall artists are crying bc u couldn't fine y'all's art styles in less than a year, but picasso took at least 30 years to find his.... take your time, guys, take your time...

i feel dumb for only recently realizing he is a very recent painter, not one who lived 300 years ago...

the fact that Picasso was still painting at 90 years old is life goals

what’s most interesting about this to me is that picasso only died fairly recently. in my mind i always thought of him as being alive around the 1700s

Just a heads up, Pablo Picasso did not have Alzheimer's disease. long story short, he had dyslexia, which definitely influenced his artwork, but not much in a negative sense, and dyslexia also does not affect intelligence or deteriorate his understanding of the making of his artwork in any way, throughout his career, and throughout his life. Picasso's work is majorly stylistic choice, If you see anyone saying he was suffering from schizophrenia or symptoms of depression that's a bit misinformed, that was Van Gogh. Edit: I will note, however, that dyslexia can affect a person's perception of drawing in perspective and making angles because they can confuse left and right, this is what Picasso definitely embraced in the making of his artwork, and is heavily seen throughout each of his paintings. quoting Picasso himself, "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

early works based on his visuals later works based on his feelings

His art at 19: Yes, truly beautiful His art at 90: 👁👄👁 👂👁👁👁👁👄👂👁

bro went from regular human being, to egyptian god, to biblically accurate eldritch angel, and then back to monke

_picasso drawing at 15 years:_ *what an elegant young man* _picasso drawing at 90 years:_ 🗿

i sometimes forget that picasso was literally alive in the 70s

His first portrait: 🧑🏻 His last: 🗿

Sometimes i forget he wasn't stricken by dementia, he just started drawing like someone who was

The only thing that never changed in his drawings was the big nose

Plot twist That's not an art style He is actually drawing the self portrait exactly how he looked at that time

As his age progresses, he is finding his style and expressing more of what he feels. That's how good Picasso is.

He was the first to do the "turns uncanny" meme. Truly ahead of his time

The original "Mr Incredible becoming uncanny" meme

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. -Pablo Picasso

0:10 Picasso rocked those 90s curtains 90 years before it was cool

dude went from being a human printer to creating entirely new fucking SCPs 💀

It's evolving, just backwards

15 year old Picasso : normal human 90 year old Picasso: *ROCK*

15 year old Picasso art: elegance 🍷🖌 90 year old Picasso art: wassup guys 🖍

1:21 me at the class thinking about being superhero:

Not even Picasso is immune to messing up “the other eye”

Another celebrity's face ruined by drugs and alcohol.

i thought i would read a bunch of super philosophical comments or smthn but it's just a bunch of ppl shitting on picasso 💀

I like watching these videos, seeing how different the self portrait becomes with each iteration

“Please don’t turn me into an oversimplified logo” -Picasso probably

He learned from spongebobs circle tutorial, I’m glad he found his style

If you notice something that his 1917 painting differs from 1938 one can be caused by the stress of the ongoing Spanish civil war that started a year ago, or maybe he was just getting more creative

The last one is mad unsettling tho

I noticed how his art got progressively… stranger

He didn't "improve backwards", he developed an artstyle and internalized his own concept of art to a new meaning.

The last ones he stopped seeing a self portrait as how you look like but more how he percieves himself as he grew old and became a more complicated person with tons of experiences, also might be the reason he chose this artstyle, to simply express how he is and not his appearance, a non materialistic point of view, just my thoughts.

You see him starting out with photo realism, just like everyone does, and then gradually developing and refining his own iconic style

The paintings he made when he was older don’t look childish they look disturbing as hell. Especially that last one. It terrifies me

Picasso's art in a nutshell : 👁️👁️👃

Oh my god this is absolutely incredible, I love it!!! That last one looks kinda like that 'Perfection, "You're not perfect"' character from Courage the Cowardly dog. Picasso's paintings are incredible; along with this music, it almost made me cry.

Picasso is a lesson in why learning the “classic fundamentals” are so important. So many people get stuck drawing bad “anime” characters and get super butt hurt and claim it is a “style”…but cartoon characters, eastern or western are about exaggeration of normal human proportions. You have to know what a human looks like and how to draw that before your big anime eyes carry the meaning you want them to.

It’s hard to believe Picasso lived till the 1970’s

You ever just turn 24 and be like: "yo this normal art is pretty fuckin boring"

Okay that last one scared the crap out of me, idk what it is about it but, yeah. I didn't even realize it was the last one at first, but it just has the feeling of "this was drawn by someone who is about to die". The wonky picasso figure but with the realistic shading, too, just... made it super uncanny, like a Courage the Cowardly Dog character. And the eyes. Oof. First time a Picasso has gotten a really strong emotion out of me aside from admiring the linework.

I’ve always loved Picasso’s eyes and how he draws them.

Picasso's art was like: I must master the elements first before breaking the rules

I don't know why but Its so fucking interesting to me how he must have felt when he draw the later ones

His paintings at the end when he was 90 are literally fucking everywhere at the end of time in art form. That is actually sick, man literally told the story of his gradual death through his final artworks.

i can always count on youtube comments to be wrong about everything

18 year old Pablo: NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST PAINT WHATEVER YOU FEEL LIKE 80 year old Pablo: haha paintbrush go brrrrr

Young age: Drawing from what he sees Old age: Drawing from what he feels

80s and 90s self portrait is the best for me ✨

Whilst most artists seek the beauty of perfection, Picasso seek the beauty of imperfections, quite literally at that.

0:09 how I see myself in the mirror. 1:57 how everyone actually sees me.

This is basically "they had us in the first half, not gonna lie." Turned into "We had him in the first half ,not gonna lie."

Love his pictures

At one point, when you master every aspect of a skill and have nothing left to learn, you start chasing after the very beginning, but the excitement and joy as a young child doesn't come back.

Picasso at age 18: Alright, so I can do realistic. What if I didn't? Picasso at age 90: It's still... too... realistic... *dies*

Am I the only one who was surprised by knowing he was alive till the 70s? Guess I imagined him to be a Renaissance artist or smth 🤦🏻‍♀️

Best character development i've seen so far

Alternative title: Picasso discovering his true artstyle over the years.

His art didn't get worse, he found himself.

i love how he was perfectly capable of drawing mesmerizing, realistic portraits but still chose to rely on what looked like a character from a fever dream

Art truly is subjective

Dude his last portraits are creepier than any other ones here. Especially from 01:29 onwards. I'd just assume that's how his emotions at the time, when he felt that he will die soon.

Plot twist: He was just going through his final forms

0:48 MAJOR ERWIN !!!

I thought his thing was that his art style was just eccentric until I saw his painting in real life. I still don't know why, but you can still tell he's a very technically skilled artist when it's basically just simple shapes. It was a unique experience to say the least.

I feel like I'm watching a man mind fall ever so closer to the abyss.

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” -PP

Marvelous.

Picasso was clearly a talented artist, and something about his art is so unsettling and creepy to me.

0:12 why is it looks like davie 504

Picasso just turns into a biblically accurate angel lmao

Dude he went off the rails

Thank you RU-vid for recommending me.

A lot of artists actually go through this, we try realism, we love it, but then we decide to go more experimental and stylized.

Ok this made me realize Picasso was alive not all that long ago

The last two drawings are actually nightmare fuel. Like I genuinely got scared looking at them.

People think that level down doesn't exist but picasso shows us that it does

My handwriting, as the time for submitting the paper comes closer:

They say age changes a person unlike anything else. This puts a whole new meaning to that.

the last one is actually kinda terrifying

Instead of his art evolving, it devolved into a literal moai

This is just him slowly ascending to the 5th dimension

Plot twist: He was actually creating realistic drawings, but his face was a mess.

i feel like this is a great analogy for the way that he both introduced a new art style, and the way that he viewed himself in the way he neglected to portray himself aging. as he got older, the women he “dated” got younger and younger. for Francois Gilot alone, she was 21 and he 61 when they first met. you can notice here that he seems to avoid being realistic about his features as soon as he is about to show signs of aging, demonstrating his twisted perception of what he actually looks like, somehow validating the acts that he did.

Inspiring, he truly blossomed as an artist in the very last years of his life.

Weirdly his latter pictures of himself resemble how people with Alzheimer’s draw them self

Somehow, this looks like "Artist draws himself post LSD/Cocain/Heroin intake" video.

0:56 Picasso after the lobotomy

he literally unlearned art lmao

According to my art teacher, children are the most genius artists. It has something to do with how they perceive the world and how they’re detached from societal expectations of what art looks like.

His art went from realism to biblically accurate angel real quick

I like how he slowly slipped deeper into madness as the years passed.

Chic & classical. Love his self-expression!

I did not realize that this man was still alive when my parents were kids. Like I thought he was some super old artist but no...

15 years old: a normal looking man who would have a successful life. 90 years old: a creature, a hideous beast told in legends that came true.

first portrait: delightful young man last portrait: fear and hunger miniboss

Im watching this the 100th time

Picasso at the age of 90 at 1:39: Reject Humanity, Return Monke