Art - Pablo Picasso Born: Legacy October 25th 1881 Picasso is thought to have made Malaga, Spain about 50,000 artworks during his Died: lifetime, including paintings, April 8th 1973 drawings, prints, sculpture, and Mougins, France ceramics. From his extensive production there are many celebrated pieces. Did you know? Pablo Picasso hosted his first exhibit in Barcelona, Spain at 19 years old. Picasso's artwork has sold for over $100 million in the 21st century. Picasso created over 20,000 art pieces in a wide range of Who was Picasso? mediums, including ceramics and theatre sets. Picasso was a Spanish Picasso's art has been featured expatriate painter, sculptor, at the Metropolitan Museum of printmaker, ceramicist, and Art (New York City), Museu stage designer, one of the Picasso in Barcelona, and the greatest and most-influential Sofia Reina Museum in Madrid. artists of the 20th century. Cubism Cubism is an art technique created by Picasso and Georges Barque when they worked together between 1909-1912 in Paris, France. It is considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century and consequently changed the ways in which people think about the role of art. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) (Left) One of the first Cubist works, and, by rejecting illusionism, Political which art practice had favoured since the Art can express an artists Renaissance,. imagination, conceptual ideas and emotions. Guernica (1937) (Right) The Weeping Woman (1937) (Above) This particular painting came at the A large black-and-white oil end of the series of paintings, painting executed in 1937 prints and drawings that Picasso following the German bombing of Guernica, a city in Spain’s made in protest to the Spanish civil Basque region. war. .