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27.04.2021 15:37 •  Английский язык

On the 25 October, 1881, a little boy was born in Malaga, Spain. It was adifficult birth and to help him breathe, cigar smoke was blown into hisnose! But despite being the youngest ever smoker, this baby grew up tobe one of the 20th century's greatest painters — Pablo Picasso.
Picasso showed his truly exceptional talent from a very young age. Hisfirst word was lapiz (Spanish for pencil) and he learned to draw beforehe could talk. He was the only son in the family and very good-looking,so he was thoroughly spoilt. He hated school and often refused to gounless his doting parents allowed him to take one of his father's petpigeons with him!

Apart from pigeons, his great love was art and when in 1891 his father,who was an amateur artist, got a job as a drawing teacher at a college,Pablo went with him to the college. He often watched his father paintand sometimes was allowed to help. One evening his father was painting apicture of their pigeons when he had to leave the room. He returned tofind that Pablo had completed the picture, and it was so amazinglybeautiful and lifelike that he gave his son his own palette and brashesand never painted again. Pablo was just 13.

From then onwards there was no stopping him. Many people realized thathe was a genius but he disappointed those who wanted him to become atraditional painter. He was always breaking the rules of artistictradition and shocked the public with his strange and powerful pictures.He is probably best known for his "Cubist" pictures, which used onlysimple geometric shapes. His paintings of people were often made up oftriangles and squares with their features in the wrong place. His workchanged our ideas about art, and to millions of people modern art meansthe work of Picasso. Guernica, which he painted in 1937, records thebombing of that little Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, and isundisputedly one of the masterpieces of modern painting.

Picasso created over 6,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures. Today a"Picasso" costs several million pounds. Once, when the French Ministerof Culture was visiting Picasso, the artist accidentally spilt somepaint on the Minister's trousers. Picasso apologized and wanted to payfor them to be cleaned, but the Minister said, "Non! Please, MonsieurPicasso, just sign my trousers!" Picasso died of heart failure during an attack of influenza in 1973.
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