Biography
Perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881, his father an art professor. He was accepted into the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona at just 13 and went on to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid at 16. His earliest work was realistic, but having moved to Paris in the first decade of the new century, he began to experiment with new styles. Together with Georges Braque, he developed the revolutionary Cubist movement, securing his position in the canon of art history. His work after the First World War showed a return to Neo-Classicism. In 1937 he painted Guernica, which documents the horror of the Spanish Civil War. He had a series of tumultuous relationships with women, and became one of the wealthiest artists of the twentieth century. In 1967 he created a 50-foot abstract sculpture for the people of Chicago, known as the 'Chicago Picasso'. He died at the dinner table in Mougins, France, in 1973.
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