Picasso

[ pi-kah-soh, -kas-oh; Spanish pee-kah-saw ]

noun
  1. Pa·blo [pah-bloh; Spanish pah-blaw], /ˈpɑ bloʊ; Spanish ˈpɑ βlɔ/, 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.

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Picasso

/ (pɪˈkæsəʊ) /


noun
  1. Pablo (ˈpæbləʊ). 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor, resident in France: a highly influential figure in 20th-century art and a founder, with Braque, of cubism. A prolific artist, his works include The Dwarf Dancer (1901), belonging to his blue period; the first cubist painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907); Three Dancers (1925), which appeared in the first surrealist exhibition; and Guernica (1937), inspired by an event in the Spanish Civil War

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