Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso is widely acknowledged to be the most important artist of the 20th century. Picasso and his friend and fellow painter, Georges Braque pioneered the Cubism movement, a revolutionary style of modern art that Picasso formed in response to the rapidly changing modern world. Before his 50th birthday, the little Spaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own lifetime. Picasso said a lot of interesting things.