Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, died in 1973 at the age of 91. But I really think he was the world "youngest" artiest, it is because when he picked up palette and brushes pencil even was at his nineties, everything into his eyes, just like the first time he saw them, so we have always found his work very interesting and unique. He has a style all his own and, I believe that this was what made him so famous and at the same time controversial.
Among Picasso's many contributions to the history of art, his most important include pioneering the modern art movement called cubism, inventing collage as an artistic technique, and developing assemblage (construction of various materials) in sculpture. All of these proofs that he is and has to be the most important artist of the 20th Century.
çEarly life and work
Picasso was born Pablo Ruiz in Malaga, Spain.
He later adopted his mother's more distinguished maiden name-Picasso-as his own. Though Spanish by birth, Picasso lived most of his life in France.
Picasso's father, who was an art teacher, quickly recognized that his child Pablo was a prodigy. Picasso studied at first privately with his father and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in a city of Spain, where his father taught. At the age of 10 he made his first paintings, his early drawings, such as Study of a Torso, After a Plaster Cast (1894-1895) demonstrate the high level of technical proficiency he had achieved when he was 14. In 1895 his family moved to Barcelona, Spain, after his father obtained a teaching post at that city's Academy of Fine Arts. Picasso was admitted to advanced classes at the academy after he completed in a single day the entrance examination that applicants traditionally were given a...
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