Today, October 25th, is Pablo Picasso’s birthday. He was born on this day in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He is one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso held his first exhibition when he was 13 years old.
Picasso’s father was a painting professor who prepared his son for a career in academic art. Picasso later experimented a lot with modern art styles. In 1900 he traveled to Paris for the first time, and in 1901 he held an exhibition in a gallery on Rue Lafitte in Paris.
At the age of 19, he had created hundreds of paintings
Picasso, a 19-year-old Spaniard, was not well-known outside Barcelona at the time, but he had already produced hundreds of paintings. Afterwards, he lived in Paris for several years before returning permanently to his city. Picasso created more than 50,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures over more than 80 years.
Many experiments were carried out regarding painting.
In his paintings he depicts the world of the poor. In works such as “The Old Guitarist” (1903), Picasso painted in blue to evoke the gloomy world of the poor. In 1907, Picasso created the groundbreaking work “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. This work was different from previous European art in that its representation of the human body was fragmented and distorted. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso shows the influence of African mask art and Paul Cézanne. It is considered a precursor to the Cubist movement.
Invented the collage style
Picasso’s major Cubist works include the costumes and sets he designed for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (1917) and The Three Musicians (1921). Picasso and Braque’s Cubist experiments led to the invention of many new artistic techniques, including collage. His 1937 masterpiece “Guernica” depicts the horror and suffering inflicted on the Basque city. Destroyed by German aircraft 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 various paintings imitating the work of other masters in art history until his death in 1973 at the age of 91.
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major events
October 25, 1924 – British authorities in India arrested Subhash Chandra Bose and sentenced him to two years in prison.
October 25, 1951 – India holds its first general election.
October 25, 1962 – American writer John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
October 25, 1964 – The first domestic tank “Vijayant” was manufactured at the Avadi plant.
October 25, 1971 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to annex Taiwan to China.
