Picasso, Pablo

A twentieth-century Spanish-born painter, the most famous and influential of all modern artists. Picasso was one of the originators of cubism , though in the course of his long career, he painted, drew, and sculpted in many other styles as well. Among his best-known works is the painting Guernica , which protests the savagery of war.

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