Pablo Picasso is the most dominant figure in 20th-century art — endlessly inventive, phenomenally prolific, and politically engaged. Born in Málaga, Spain, he showed extraordinary talent as a child and moved to Paris in 1904, where he would spend most of his career. His Blue and Rose periods gave way to the revolutionary Cubism he developed with Georges Braque around 1907, which shattered the centuries-old convention of single-point perspective and changed art forever. He worked in painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, and stage design. His response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica produced one of the most powerful anti-war statements in art history. He produced an estimated 20,000 works over his 75-year career.
