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 style. He also generously drew on innovations of his peers, sometimes engaging in productive collaborations like the one with Georges Braque whose cubist experiments became so intertwined with his own that both of them stopped signing their respective paintings.

Pablo Picasso produced almost 50,000 artworks during his lifetime, ranging from paintings to sculptures.  One of his most famous works 'Guernica' 1937 was inspired by the destruction by bombing of the Spanish town of that name. His artworks are a part of numerous prestigious collections all over the world.

Even into his eighties and nineties, Picasso produced an enormous number of works and reaped the financial benefits of his success, amassing a personal fortune and a superb collection of his own art, as well as work by other artists. He died in 1973, leaving an artistic legacy that continues to resonate today throughout the world.