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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish
painter and sculptor. His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de
Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispín Crispiniano de la
Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures
in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with
Georges Braque, of cubism. It has been estimated that Picasso produced
about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000
book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) was a spanish artist whose name is almost
synonymous with 20th century art. No artist was ever as famous as
Picasso was in his own lifetime, or has been since. The controversies
over his personality, arrogance, affairs with younger women, and
unwillingness to be classified in the art world only added to his fame.
And without a doubt Picasso was a true genius - able to create
incredibly complex and powerful paintings with a few strokes of the
brush, or capture the essence of someone's face from many different
angles all at once. Most of all Picasso was an individualist. He was a
founder of art movements,such as Cubism, but paradoxically refused to
do what other people did, and whenever the art world caught up with him
and thought they knew what to expect, he would change completely and
surprise them. A child prodigy, Picasso was as skilled in realist
portraits as in expressionist symbolism. He was also incredibly
proficient, especially near the end of his life, when he would often
complete three paintings in one day. It was as if he believed he could
delay his death through painting. At the time many of these works were
dismissed, in the words of Douglas Cooper, as "the incoherent
scribblings of a frenetic old man". It wasn't until long after
picasso's death that critics took a new look at his later works and
realized that Picasso had invented neo-expressionism and was, as usual,
decades ahead of his time.
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