Today, October 25, is Pablo Picasso’s birthday. He was born on this day in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso had his first exhibition at the age of 13.
Picasso’s father was a drawing teacher and prepared his son for a career in academic art. Later, Picasso experimented a lot with modern art styles. He went to Paris for the first time in 1900 and in 1901 he held an exhibition in a gallery on Rue Lafitte in Paris.
He had made hundreds of paintings by the time he was 19 years old.
The 19-year-old Spaniard Picasso was not well known outside Barcelona at that time, but he had already created hundreds of paintings. After this he lived in Paris for several years and later returned to his city permanently. Picasso created more than 50,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures over 80 years.
Many experiments related to painting were carried out.
He represented the world of the poor in his paintings. In works such as The Old Guitarist (1903), Picasso painted blue to evoke the bleak world of the poor. In 1907, Picasso painted the groundbreaking work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, which differed from earlier European art in its fragmented and distorted depiction of the human form. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso showed the influence of both African mask art and Paul Cézanne. He is considered a precursor of the cubist movement.
invented the collage style
Picasso’s major Cubist works included his costumes and sets for the Ballets Russes (1917) and Sergei Diaghilev’s The Three Musicians (1921). The cubist experiments of Picasso and Braque resulted in the invention of many new artistic techniques, including collage. His 1937 masterpiece, Guernica, described the horror and suffering endured by the Basque city. When it was destroyed by German planes during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso lived in Paris during the Nazi occupation, but was a staunch opponent of fascism and joined the French Communist Party after the war.
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He experimented with ceramics and created a variety of paintings inspired by the works of other masters of art history. He continued to create art non-stop until his death in 1973 at the age of 91.
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important events
October 25, 1924: British authorities in India arrested Subhash Chandra Bose and sent him to prison for two years.
October 25, 1951: India’s first general elections begin.
October 25, 1962: American writer John Steinbeck receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
October 25, 1964: The first indigenous tank, ‘Vijayant’, was manufactured at the Avadi factory.
October 25, 1971: The United Nations General Assembly voted to include Taiwan in China.
