Pablo Ruiz Picasso:
(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre
designer
who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most
influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the
Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the
co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he
helped develop and explore.
Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the
bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish
Civil War.