PABLO PICASSO

• PABLO PICASSO, Spanish painter, based in France. Along with Georges Braque, he is known as the founder of Cubism. He produced oil paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics, and was the most prolific artist of his lifetime. He was brought up seeing many paintings from his childhood because his father was an art teacher. He moved to Barcelona in 1895, entered art school. In 1907, he created "Daughters of Avignon"which was the beginning of cubism, around 1911 changed his painting style and turned to "abstract painting"which was a more advanced version of "cubism", and was commissioned to create a mural in the Spanish Pavilion at Expo 1937, Paris. He was commissioned to create a mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition in 1937, and painted "Guernica." It depicted the horrors of the indiscriminate bombings during the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of the most powerful anti-war paintings in the history of art.