Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso
Picasso in 1908
Born	Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso[1] (1881-10-25)25 October 1881 Málaga, Spain
Died	8 April 1973(1973-04-08) (aged 91) Mougins, France
Resting place	Château of Vauvenargues

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

Image: Bettmann, Bettmann Archive

(October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor.^[2] He created over 20,000 works of art.^[3] He was 91 when he died.

He is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.^[4][5][6] He co-founded the style of art called cubism.^[4] In cubist art, the artist breaks objects into pieces and reassembles them in abstract and geometric form.^[7][8] Picasso could draw and paint when he was very young. His first word was "lápiz", the Spanish word for "pencil".^[9][10]

Perhaps his most famous painting is Guernica, which shows the horrors of war after the bombing of the town of Guernica.^[11] He spent most of his life in France when he was an adult.

He was 90 years old when the Louvre in Paris showed many of his works. He was the first living artist to have an exhibition at the Louvre.^[12]

Picasso had four children with three women. He died of heart failure in Mougins, France, on April 8 1973.

1. ↑ Daix, Pierre; Boudaille, Georges; Rosselet, Joan (1988). Picasso, 1900-1906: catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint. Editions Ides et Calendes.
2. ↑ His full name isPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.
3. ↑ "About Pablo Picasso". Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Archived from the original on 1 December 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Pablo Picasso". biography.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
5. ↑ "On-line Picasso Project". Prof. Dr. Enrique Mallen. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
6. ↑ "Biography of Pablo Picasso". Buzzle.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
7. ↑ "Cubism - Credo Reference Topic". credoreference.com. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
8. ↑ "Cubism entry of the allword dictionary". allword.com. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
9. ↑ Wertenbaker, Lael (1967). The World of Picasso – Time–Life Library of Art. Time-Life Books.
10. ↑ "Picasso's Secret Guernica". web.org.uk. 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
11. ↑ "Guernica by Pablo Picasso". pablopicasso.org. 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
12. ↑ "Biography of Pablo Picasso in table form". DJT Fine Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2009.