Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist who spent most of his adult life in France. He co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque and is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, producing an estimated 50,000 artworks across multiple media.
His most celebrated works include Guernica (1937), Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), The Old Guitarist (1903–1904), Girl Before a Mirror (1932), and The Weeping Woman (1937). Guernica, his powerful anti-war painting, is considered one of the most moving artworks in history.
Cubism is a revolutionary art movement that Picasso created alongside Georges Braque between 1907 and 1914. It broke objects into geometric forms and showed multiple perspectives simultaneously, rejecting the single-viewpoint tradition of Western art since the Renaissance. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) is considered its proto-Cubist origin.
Picasso's career is divided into several periods: the Blue Period (1901–1904) with somber blue tones; the Rose Period (1904–1906) with warmer colors and circus themes; the African-influenced Period (1907–1909); Analytic Cubism (1909–1912); Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919); and later Neoclassical, Surrealist, and experimental phases.
Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91, in Mougins, France. The cause of death was heart failure brought on by pulmonary edema. He had been painting until 3 a.m. the night before.
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