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About
20th-century painter and sculptor who co-founded the Cubist movement and invented several new styles of art, including constructed sculpture and collage.
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Before Fame
He displayed an artistic talent for realism during his youth, but his style changed in the early 1900s, leading him to create cubist works such as Guernica (1937).
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Trivia Fact
The name on his baptism certificate reads: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santasima Trinidad, and was intended to honor several family members as well as patron saints.
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Family Life:
He was involved with many different women over the course of his life, and was the father of four children: Paulo, Maya, Claude and Paloma Picasso.
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Associated With
The printmaker Henri Matisse had an intensely competitive friendship with Picasso during the 20th century.
