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Pablo Picasso a Spanish painter and sculptor, is being considered as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. (Pablo Picasso: Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society) Picasso had been famous as no artist had been ever, being a pioneer in every discipline he chose, a master and a protean monster, having his influence on every art movement during his time. Not even Michelangelo could be considered as famous as Picasso during his own lifetime. And no one will ever be again as famous as Picasso was. (Artists and Entertainers: Pablo Picasso) He was born in Malaga on October 25, in the year 1881 as the son of Jose Ruiz Blasco, who was an art teacher, and Mar'a Picasso Lopez. Picasso created more than 20,000 works during his lifetime. Picasso was a genius who could be understood from his early years itself, that by the age of 10 he had made his first paintings. (Pablo Picasso: Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society)

Till the year 1898 Picasso had always used his father's name, Ruiz, and his mother's maiden name, Picasso, to autograph his paintings. But by 1901 he started to use only Picasso to sign his pictures. (Pablo Picasso: Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society) Picasso's fan following was several hundreds and millions of people. However Picasso along with his work had always being the centre of criticism. He was a superstitious having a taste for sarcastic tendencies, often against women and had contempt for women artists. Even though the Nazis considered his work as the focus of degenerating art, his popularity gave him protection during the German occupation of Paris, where he had lived. And after the war, Picasso gave uncompromising support to Joseph Stalin, who was a mass murderer even extending that of Hitler, and he was rarely criticized for his actions, even in cold war America. (Artists and Entertainers: Pablo Picasso)

Picasso was considered as an inventor of various forms, as a pioneer of different styles and methods, having mastery over various media, and as one of the significant popular artists in history. (Pablo Picasso: Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society) Picasso is considered equally famous along with Georges Braque, for his thoughts on Cubism. In his life he delivered a wide-ranging variety works, the most popular being the works during the Blue Period which show depictions of harlequins, acrobats, beggars, prostitutes and artists. (Pablo Picasso: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Picasso, was the first artist to have tasted the obsessive interest of mass media. His output was wide-ranging and he showed his permanent influence on each and every discipline which he chose. Further Picasso was the artist with whom almost all other artists had to reckon with, and it could be said that there was hardly any movement in the 20th century which did not receive his attention and which he did not contribute to. (Artists and Entertainers: Pablo Picasso)

The exception, even though Picasso had not touched on an abstract picture in his life time, his influence lie almost everywhere-- one outstanding example was his effect on the early works of American Abstract Expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, a few among others. Picasso was not a member of the Surrealist group, but during the period of the 1920s and 1930's he had delivered some of the scariest distortions of the human body. It was the experience with modern ideas and forms which created his modernism and this took place in Paris. (Artists and Entertainers: Pablo Picasso) Picasso always loneliness even while was working. In Paris, even though he had a number of distinguished circle of friends which included Andre Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gerrude Stein in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters he always had a number of mistresses along with having his… READ MORE

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