Art · Film · Literature · 1881–1973
Born: 25 October 1881 · Died: 8 April 1973 · Age at death: 91
Pablo Picasso died aged 91. He was born on 25 October 1881 and died on 8 April 1973.
Spanish artist who co-founded Cubism and painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century
Did you know?His full name consisted of twenty-three words, honouring various saints and relatives.
Pablo Picasso reinvented art not once but several times over a career of more than seventy years. A child prodigy trained by his father, he moved through a melancholy Blue Period and a warmer Rose Period before co-founding Cubism, which broke objects into angular planes seen from several viewpoints at once. His painting Guernica, a howl of anguish at the bombing of a Spanish town in 1937, remains one of the most powerful anti-war images ever made. He worked in painting, sculpture, ceramics and printmaking, producing many tens of thousands of works. More than anyone, he came to embody the idea of the modern artist.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France.
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Spanish artist, born 1881
Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga on 25 October 1881.
He co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque.
He painted Guernica in 1937.
He died in Mougins, France, on 8 April 1973.
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Did you know?His full baptismal name has more than 20 words.
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