Picasso

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

noun

1. Pa·blo [pah, -bloh, pah, -blaw], 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.

Picasso

/ pɪˈkæsəʊ /

noun

1. PicassoPablo18811973MSpanishARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor 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

Working for him, Rosen writes, meant learning the art of interviewing from the “Picasso” of the form.

From Washington Post

The National Gallery of Art’s senior lecturer David Gariff recorded a 2020 lecture with views of the Riviera by Matisse and several others, including Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard and Paul Signac.

From Washington Post

The inner critic must be shut down, and the inner Picasso turned up.

From Nautilus

In other words, the inner critic must be shut down, and the inner Picasso turned up.

From Nautilus

Now, just as avid an art collector, Jay Z spoke about the meeting of cultural worlds (and rapped about them) in “Picasso Baby”.

From The Daily Beast

If only he had worked for FIFA, he might have a Picasso by now.

From The Daily Beast

And let us be sure, also, that the Picasso goes back to the Hermitage Museum.

From The Daily Beast

The well in which he unabashedly dips back into over and over is that of Picasso.

From The Daily Beast

Picasso worked from the photograph to create the blocked, jagged shapes he painted on canvas.

From The Daily Beast

Just as Picasso brings twentieth-century nature into his still lives, so the young composer brings it into his music.

From Project Gutenberg

Their paintings show a remarkable affinity to the style of Picasso and Matisse.

From Project Gutenberg

So, though Picasso remains the animator of the doctrinaire school or schools, Lhote may become the master.

From Project Gutenberg

So the doctrinaire side of the movement persists, animated by Picasso, and schooled to some extent by Lhote.

From Project Gutenberg

And, besides being extraordinarily inventive, Picasso is what they call "an intellectual artist."

From Project Gutenberg