Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 in Málaga, Spain – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor.[1] Pablo Picasso created over 20,000 images.[2]
He is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.[3][4][5] He is best known as the co-founder of cubism.[3] A work of art is cubist when the artist opts to break up objects and re-assemble them in abstract and geometric form.[6][7]
Picasso could draw and paint when he was very young. His first word was lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil".[8][9]
Perhaps his most famous painting is Guernica which shows the horrors of war after the bombing of the town of Guernica.[10]
He was 90 years old when a number of his works were shown in an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. He was the first living artist to have an exhibition at the Louvre.[11]
Picasso had four children with three women. He died of heart failure on 8 April 1973.