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Pablo Picasso – Father of Cubism

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on 25th October 1881 in Spain. He was considered to be one of the most important and dominant art figures of 20th Century.   Picasso is also known as the Father of Cubism as he pioneered the concept of Cubism in the world of art. Other than cubism he also made notable contributions to Surrealism and known to have invented Collage art.   Picasso intermittently travelled between Paris and Spain until 1904, during this period his artworks suggested a feeling of darkness and desolation. His earliest artistic phase is known as the Blue Phase, featuring motifs from everyday Parisian life, these motifs were significant as they implicated the poverty and loneliness. The artist demonstrated extra ordinary artistic talent in his early years, his style of transitioned during his course of art practice.   Picasso was fairly experimental with his art hence created painted different with different