Ephemeris of October 25: what happened on a day like today?

S ephemeris from October 25 make up a diverse list of births, deaths and other events that happened on a day like today. Also, this Tuesday they celebrate the world karate day and the European Day of Justice.

Other than that, the main anniversary of the day is that of Pablo Picassoinnovative artist among the best known and most influential of the 20th century, born on 25 October 1881 in the Spanish city of Rum raisin. During more than six decades of experience, Picasso he alternates styles and follows a personal path that takes him through different “periods”, which constitute one of the most diverse and richest works of art. artistic history of humanity.

It is estimated that during his lifetime Picasso made 13,500 paintings y drawings100,000 impressions or engravings34,000 illustrations for books and 300 sculptures or ceramicaccording to the Art Encyclopedia History / Art. In them he alternated different periods such as blue, pink or black and white. This artist founded the cubismto then adopt the surrealism and the abstraction.

On the other hand, the Argentine letters will remember this day’s life Alfonsina Stornione of poets most important in our country. Although she was born in Switzerland in 1892, she has lived in San Juan since 1896 and in Rosario since the age of nine. In that city she began an acting career that allowed her to tour the interior of Argentina, but not being able to live on this, she became a teacher.

The Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni was born in 1892. Source: OZ Magazine

In his time as a teacher, he wrote his first poems, and in 1911 he moved to Buenos Aires. In 1912 she was the mother of her son Alejandro; and four years later she published her first poetry book, The restlessness of the rose garden. This would have been the time to change, in 1918, the sweet harmwhich earned him a first recognition in literary circles weather.

In 1920, his book Languor got the First Municipal Poetry Prize and the Second National Literature Prize, distinctions that ended up putting her in a privileged position that few women had achieved in her day. In 1925 she cured Ocher: his masterpiece.

In the 1930s she obtained other important awards such as being the first woman to be part of the jury of the Municipal Writing Awardin addition to working alongside important international figures such as Federico Garcia Lorca.

This famous writer was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1935, which darkened her spirits, as can be seen in her latest book, face mask and clover, published in 1938. In its pages contained poems about the sea, the Río de la Plata and death. Finally, in the early hours of October 25 drowned in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean of Mar del Plata: the last act of one of the most representative voices of the national poetry.

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