The North Korean Rodong Sinmun introduced Picasso on October 13 as a renowned French painter, sculptor, and craftsman, noting he initially studied art under his father, an art school instructor, and later pursued art studies at the Madrid Academy of Fine Arts.

Rodong Sinmun explained that Picasso emerged as the founder of Cubism, a reactionary formalist art movement, during a period when capitalist culture was undergoing a general crisis. However, it pointed out that he was greatly influenced by the widespread anti-fascist resistance movement in Europe during the mid-1930s.

Rodong Sinmun reported that Picasso also produced works embodying progressiveness, such as the oil painting Guernica (1937), which depicts the historical fact of Germany's barbaric bombing to destroy the government established by the Spanish people in Guernica.

He was a renowned painter, sculptor, and craftsman who left behind a vast body of work, and at the same time, he was an anti-fascist fighter. In 1944, Picasso joined the French Communist Party.

One day in August 1940, while fascist German occupiers held Paris, Picasso was intensely focused on creating in his studio, filled with rage and fury toward the invaders. At that moment, an elderly neighbor arrived, holding a dead pigeon in both hands, weeping and lamenting.

Rodong Sinmun reported the old man said, “My grandson was feeding this pigeon when a gang of fascist scum rushed in and beat him to death. They even killed this pigeon. Mr. Picasso, please paint this pigeon. So I won't forget my grandson, brutally murdered by the fascist scum.”

Picasso comforted the old man for a while, then, filled with grief and a solemn resolve, painted a dove. Rodong Sinmun explained that in 1949, Picasso presented this painting to the World Peace Conference held in Paris, and from that time on, the dove became a symbol of world peace.

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