Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor

Representative work

"Guernica", "Dove of Peace", "Girls of Avignon", "Life"

Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, member of the French Communist Party. He is the founder of modern art and the main representative of Western modernist painting. Picasso is the most creative and far-reaching artist in the contemporary West and one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the 20th century. Representative works: "Guernica", "Dove of Peace", "The Maiden of Avignon" and "Life".

Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. In 1897, Picasso went to the Prado Museum in Madrid for further studies. In 1900, Picasso went to Paris to work and live. In 1903, completed the painting "Life". In 1907, the completion of the painting "The Maiden of Avignon" became a milestone in his creation of the Cubist style. In 1937, Picasso created the large-scale painting "Guernica" to commemorate the Nazi bombing of Guernica. In 1949 his work "Dove of Peace" was selected as the poster of the International Peace Conference. Picasso died in Mougins, France in 1973 at the age of 91.

Picasso was a prolific painter. According to statistics, his works totaled nearly 37,000 pieces, including: 1,885 oil paintings, 7,089 drawings, 20,000 prints, and 6,121 lithographs. In a poll conducted by a French newspaper in December 1999, he was voted one of the ten greatest painters of the 20th century by 40%.

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