Portrait of Picasso

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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who lived most of his adult life in France, was born on October 25, 1881, and died on April 8, 1973. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, Picasso is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, inventing constructed sculpture, co-inventing collage, and developing a wide variety of styles that he explored. His famous works include Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), a proto-Cubist painting, and Guernica (1937), which portrays the Bombing of Guernica by German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp are considered three artists who most defined revolutionary developments in plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century. These artists were responsible for significant advancements in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics. Picasso demonstrated exceptional artistic talent from an early age, painting in a naturalistic manner during his childhood and adolescence. In the first decade of the 20th century, Picasso's style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His work is often categorized into periods, although some of these names are debated. The most commonly accepted periods in his work include the Blue Period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1904-1906), the African-influenced Period (1907-1909), Analytic Cubism (1909-1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912-1919), also known as the Crystal period. Throughout his long life, Picasso was exceptionally prolific, achieving universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments. He became one of the most well-known figures in 20th-century art.