Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso , 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 cofounding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the coinvention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the protoCubist Les Demoiselles dAvignon , and Guernica , 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 was baptized Pablo Diego Jos Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mara de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santsima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, a series of names honoring various saints and relatives. Ruiz y Picasso were included for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish law. Born in the city of Mlaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don Jos Ruiz y Blasco and Mara Picasso y Lpez. Though baptized a Catholic, Picasso would later on become an atheist. Picassos family was of middleclass background. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Ruizs ancestors were minor aristocrats.

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