Picasso

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

noun

1. Pablo 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.

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

Example Sentences

The folders included many a random blob and splodge, alongside happy snaps of the would-be Picassos making creations only a parent could love.

From BBC

The gallery added: "This figure accompanied Picasso throughout his life and continues to shape how we imagine the role of the artist today."

From BBC

Within weeks, Pablo Picasso’s painting “Guernica” was on public display, boosting global revulsion at such barbarism.

From Salon

Elliott notes that a Picasso painting hangs in the anteroom of a prominent political family’s Washington, D.C., bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times

The moniker, which he created as a teenager, is a play on Pablo Picasso’s name mixed with an early 2010s social media term “art hoe.”

From Los Angeles Times