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

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

'''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|sculptor]]. 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>