Pablo Picasso
October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973
Spanish painter and sculptor who co-founded Cubism; his Guernica (1937) protested the bombing of a Basque town in the Spanish Civil War.
Biography
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, in 1881 and settled in Paris in 1904. After his Blue and Rose periods, his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) broke with traditional perspective.
With Georges Braque he developed Cubism, which showed objects from several viewpoints at once, and he later worked in neoclassical and surrealist styles, as well as sculpture, ceramics and printmaking.
His Guernica (1937), painted after the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, became one of the best-known anti-war images. He joined the French Communist Party in 1944, lived in the south of France in later life, and died in 1973 as perhaps the most famous artist of the 20th century.
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Education
- from Jan 1, 1897 Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
