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Pablo Picasso, aka Pablo Ruiz or Pablo Ruiz Picasso, was a Spanish expatriate artist, sculptor, painter artist, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. He was one of the best and most influential artists of the 20th century. He was also the founder (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, and left for his heavenly abode on April 8, 1973, in Mougins, France.
The vast amount of work by Picasso is a testament to the legend that he was and also to the energy and creativity of the "disquieting" Spaniard with the "somber...piercing" eyes who superstitiously believed that his work kept his spirit alive. Through the span of almost the entirety of his life, 91 years of existence, Picasso committed himself to a creative process that significantly influenced and mirrored the entire evolution of art and design in the early 20th century.
Early Year
Pablo Picasso was the son of Jose Ruiz Blasco, an instru
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PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973)
In 1957, the UNESCO “Committee on Architecture and Works of Art”, in collaboration with the Committee of art advisors, chose eleven artists to undertake the task of decorating the permanent headquarters in Paris, inaugurated in 1958. In this context, UNESCO commissioned a painted mural from Pablo Picasso. The artist began his studies for the decoration of the new Parisian building in December 1957 and filled two notebooks with sketches of bathing figures and nudes, in the style of his series of Bathers from 1956. On January 29, 1958, the artist completed the final scale model for this immense work. Two months later, the mural was presented to Luther Evans (1902-1981), UNESCO’s Director General from 1953 to 1958, in the presence of the President of the UNESCO Executive Board, as well as Georges Salles (1889-1966), the second President of the ICOM from 1953 to1959 and Vice President of the Committee of art advisors.
The mural is made up of forty wooden