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[[Image:Casso.jpg|right|thumb|Pablo Picasso]]

[[Image:Casso.jpg|right|thumb|Pablo Picasso]]

'''Pablo Picasso''' ([[1881]]-1973) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] artist who did both painting and [[sculpture|sculpting]]. He is most famous for starting a new style of art (along with Basque artist George Braque) called [[cubism]], which embodied the neuroses (some would say schizophrenia) of artist of his era. He was the single most dominating figure in modern art.

'''Pablo Picasso''' ([[1881]]-1973) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] artist who did both painting and [[sculpture|sculpting]]. He is most famous for starting a new style of art (along with Basque artist [[Georges Braque|George Braque]]) called [[cubism]], which embodied the neuroses (some would say schizophrenia) of artist of his era. He was the single most dominating figure in modern art.

   

   

The son of an art teacher, Picasso was only 12 when he began exhibiting his first paintings in his famous primitive style in Barcelona.  He created 20,000 paintings, sculptures and drawings during his life.  Perhaps his most famous painting was [http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Picasso_._Guernica.jpg ''Guernica''], which was inspired by his outrage at the destruction of a Socialist stronghold during the [[Spanish Civil War]].  Picasso, a Socialist, supported the government that General Franco defeated.  Picasso found a more welcoming home in [[France]], and never returned to Spain.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/8/newsid_2523000/2523469.stm Pablo Picasso dies] </ref>

The son of an art teacher, Picasso was only 12 when he began exhibiting his first paintings in his famous primitive style in Barcelona.  He created 20,000 paintings, sculptures and drawings during his life.  Perhaps his most famous painting was [http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Picasso_._Guernica.jpg ''Guernica''], which was inspired by his outrage at the destruction of a Socialist stronghold during the [[Spanish Civil War]].  Picasso, a Socialist, supported the government that General Franco defeated.  Picasso found a more welcoming home in [[France]], and never returned to Spain.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/8/newsid_2523000/2523469.stm Pablo Picasso dies] </ref>

*[[Painting Masterpieces]]

*[[Painting Masterpieces]]

*[[Painting Schools]]

*[[Painting Schools]]

== External links ==

== External links ==

*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2631455/Unprecedented-Picasso-exhibition-planned-for-Paris-galleries.html "Unprecedented" Picasso exhibition planned for Paris galleries]

*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2631455/Unprecedented-Picasso-exhibition-planned-for-Paris-galleries.html "Unprecedented" Picasso exhibition planned for Paris galleries]

*[http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso.html Pablo Picasso] '''Olga's Gallery'''

*[http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso.html Pablo Picasso] Olga's Gallery.

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