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the man who broke faces apart to see them more clearly.
means a spanish artist whose relentless reinvention of style made him the defining painter and sculptor of the 20th century.
from born pablo ruiz picasso in malaga in 1881, he took his mother's surname because it stood out more than his father's common ruiz; it turned out to be one of the great branding decisions in art history.
full namehas 23 words, including saints and relatives
outputan estimated 50000 works across his lifetime
first wordallegedly piz, short for lapiz, pencil
police suspectbriefly accused of stealing the mona lisa in 1911
for instance
guernica — 1937 mural condemning the bombing of a basque town
les demoiselles d'avignon — 1907 painting that basically invented cubism
the weeping woman — 1937 portrait series of his lover dora maar
blue period — 1901-1904 works painted in poverty after a friend's suicide