A short biography of a famous painter and sculptor
A male born in 1881, died in 1973- Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous painters of the 1900's.
As the son of a professor of art, Picasso's talent for drawing was recognized at an early age. An advanced student at the Barcelona Academy of Fine Arts from the age of 14, he experimented in his youth with nearly all of the "avant-garde styles" current at the turn of the century.
He also became known for his sculpture , drawings, graphics, and ceramics works. In some way he was the artist most characteristic of this century, because he responded to changing conditions, moods, challenges so intensely and so rapidly. His "searching style" made him the leader in expressing the complexity of the 1900's.
For Picasso, the meaning of art was to be derived from other works of art, and not directly from nature.
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