His work matured from the naturalism of his childhood through cubism, surrealism and beyond, shaping the direction of modern and contemporary art through the decades. 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. Pablo picasso was a spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century 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.
His creative styles transcend realism and abstraction, cubism, neoclassicism, surrealism, and expressionism After shattering representational tradition through cubism, which he developed with georges braque, picasso became the artistic visionary against whom most others measured their creativity throughout the twentieth century. A master of each medium he touched, picasso produced over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, theatre sets and costumes during his nearly 80 years of art making.
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