Pablo Picasso
| Pablo Picasso | |
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Picasso in 1908
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| Born |
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso 25 October 1881 Málaga, Spain |
| Died | 8 April 1973 (aged 91) Mougins, France |
| Resting place |
Château of Vauvenargues 43°33′15″N 5°36′16″E / 43.554142°N 5.604438°E |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Education |
José Ruiz y Blasco (father) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando |
| Known for | Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing |
| Notable work |
La Vie (1903) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) Girl before a Mirror (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Guernica (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937) |
| Movement | Cubism, Surrealism |
| Spouse(s) |
Olga Khokhlova (m. 1918; d. 1955) Jacqueline Roque (m. 1961) |
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/;Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.
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