He manipulated mediums, forms, and genres, never seizing his experimentations and never settling in one style for too long. With these words, picasso shed light on two central principles of his artistic production over nearly 80 years His openness to a diverse range of styles, subject matters, and mediums, and his resistance to the notion that change in art necessarily corresponds to improvement or progress. He was not only a master painter but also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramics artist, etching artist and writer. Pablo picasso was the most dominant and influential artist of the first half of the 20 th century Associated most of all with pioneering cubism, alongside georges braque, he also invented collage and made major contributions to symbolism and surrealism.
Born in malaga in 1881, the son of an artist, picasso attended art schools in his native spain and in his late teens aligned his sensibilities with bohemian writers and artists in barcelona and madrid who opposed spain’s stalled social hierarchies and conservative culture.
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