Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Saturday, April 02, 2011

Bad student, good painter – Pablo Picasso

Teachers of the famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) were probably surprised by his great international success in art.

Pablo left school when he was ten because he couldn’t learn to read and write fluently. He had difficulties expressing himself and he also confused letter.

According to Pablo's mother, the famous painter learned to draw before he even learned to speak. One of the first words he uttered was "piz". In fact, little Pablo was asking of his mother “lapiz", which is a Spanish word for - a pencil.

He wanted to draw.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Thank God!

Celebrated Spanish film director Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) reporters once asked whether his artistic destiny was crucially influenced with his Jesuit education, which was a wish of his very pious parents.

"Not at all!" Replied Buñuel. "I am an atheist, thank God."
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