Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso, (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor. After studying in Madrid he moved to Paris, where he painted the Banc clowns, and acrobats of the city in his early ‘Blue’ and ‘Rose’ periods. He then evolved, a new style called ‘Cubism’, in which he painted things as if they were being seen from several viewpoints simultaneously, as in the painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). During the 1920s and 1930s Picasso’s style evolved still further. The painting Guernica (1937) depicts in symbolic style the artist’s horror-at the death and destruction that took place during the Spanish Civil War. After World II Picasso settled in the South of France, where he continued to produce large numbers of paintings, as well as sculpture and pottery. The most influential of 20th-century artists, he was also one of the most prolific; his works are in collections and galleries all over the world.
