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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25 1881 – April 8 1973) was a very prolific Spanish painter and sculptor. He created (1) ____________ 20,000 images.
He is considered (2) ____________ of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is best known as the co-founder of cubism. A work of art is cubist when the artist opts to break up objects and reassemble (3) ____________ in abstract and geometric form. Picasso could draw and paint when he was very young. His first word was “lápiz”, the Spanish word for «pencil».
Perhaps his most famous painting is Guernica, (4) ____________ shows the horrors of war after the bombing of the town of Guernica. After fleeing Spain, he spent (5) ____________ of his life in France.
He was 90 years old when a number of his works were shown in an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. He was the first living artist (6) ____________ have an exhibition at the Louvre.
Picasso had four children with three women. He died of heart failure in Mougins, France, on April 8 1973.
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