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'''Pablo Picasso''' (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] artist who was both a painter and [[sculpture]]. Pablo Picasso co-founded (along with Basque artist [[Georges Braque|George Braque]]) [[Cubism]], which embodied the neuroses (some would say schizophrenia) of artist of his era. He produced a monumental 20,000 artworks during his 70-year career. Picasso’s torrential outpouring of work was so extensive and complex that art historians have divided it into individual periods.<ref>Petite Fleurs. [http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=85097&apnum=336396 Pablo Picasso], AllPosters.com</ref> He was the single most dominating figure in modern art.

'''Pablo Picasso''' (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] artist who was both a painter and [[sculpture]]. Pablo Picasso co-founded (along with Basque artist [[Georges Braque|George Braque]]) [[Cubism]], which embodied the neuroses (some would say schizophrenia) of artist of his era. He produced a monumental 20,000 artworks during his 70-year career. Picasso’s torrential outpouring of work was so extensive and complex that art historians have divided it into individual periods.<ref>Petite Fleurs. [http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=85097&apnum=336396 Pablo Picasso], AllPosters.com</ref> He was the single most dominating figure in modern art.

   

   

A prodigy in his youth and the son of an art teacher, Picasso was only 12 when he began exhibiting his first paintings in his famous primitive style in [[Barcelona]]. Picasso enrolled in advanced classes at Barcelona’s [[Royal Academy of Art]] at age 15. The strong geometric forms of his groundbreaking Cubist works redefined art as a medium that could digress from literal images of reality. Passionately creative in every genre from primitive art to sketches to Surrealism, Picasso profoundly impacted 20th century art. 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 lifelong [[Communist]], supported the Republican government defeated by General Franco's forces and never returned to his homeland after Franco's victory.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/8/newsid_2523000/2523469.stm 1973: Art master Picasso dies], April 8</ref>

A prodigy in his youth and the son of an art teacher, Picasso was only 12 when he began exhibiting his first paintings in his famous primitive style in [[Barcelona]]. Picasso enrolled in advanced classes at Barcelona’s [[Royal Academy of Art]] at age 15. The strong geometric forms of his groundbreaking Cubist works redefined art as a medium that could digress from literal images of reality. Passionately creative in every genre from primitive art to sketches to [[Surrealism]], Picasso profoundly impacted 20th century art. 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 lifelong [[Communist]], supported the Republican government defeated by General Franco's forces and never returned to his homeland after Franco's victory.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/8/newsid_2523000/2523469.stm 1973: Art master Picasso dies], April 8</ref>

He is immortalized in several of the works of the [[Lost Generation]] of American ex-patriate writers with whom he associated in Paris during the 1920s, including [[Gertrude Stein]] and [[Ernest Hemingway]], by whom he is fondly remembered in their respective autobiographical efforts of that time (''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'' and ''A Moveable Feast'').

He is immortalized in several of the works of the [[Lost Generation]] of American ex-patriate writers with whom he associated in Paris during the 1920s, including [[Gertrude Stein]] and [[Ernest Hemingway]], by whom he is fondly remembered in their respective autobiographical efforts of that time (''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'' and ''A Moveable Feast'').