Pablo Picasso
Definition
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for his contributions to Surrealism and Symbolism.
Analogy
Think of Picasso as a chef who isn't satisfied with traditional recipes. Instead, he mixes ingredients in new and unexpected ways to create dishes (or in his case, artworks) that are completely unique.
Related terms
Blue Period: A term used to define the works produced by Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904 when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green.
Rose Period: The period from late 1904 to early 1906 characterized by a more cheery style with orange and pink colors, featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins known in France as saltimbanques.
Guernica: A large mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937. It is one of his best known works, depicting the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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