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Picasso

American  
[pi-kah-soh, -kas-oh, pee-kah-saw] / pɪˈkɑ soʊ, -ˈkæs oʊ, piˈkɑ sɔ /

noun

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


Picasso British  
/ 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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Pablo Picasso, emerging from a Spanish cave containing Paleolithic paintings, is said to have exclaimed: “In 15,000 years we have invented nothing!”

From The Wall Street Journal

Much-hyped French designer Simon Jacquemus will close out the week with a show at the Picasso Museum that is expected to draw numerous celebrities.

From Barron's

"But my father treated artists as seriously as Picasso or Paul Klee."

From Barron's

After we ordered—a smoked salmon club sandwich for me, steak tartare for him and two oak-aged Negronis—Andrea showed me the Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Picasso paintings that are the hotel’s pride.

From The Wall Street Journal

His stark black-and-white imagery in assiduously long takes with creeping camera movements — hallmarks of his filmmaking — demanded that the viewer pause to look, to see, as one might in regarding a Picasso or a Bruegel.

From Los Angeles Times