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

His art collection included works by Dali, Chagall and Picasso.

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There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.

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“I don’t look like that,” Gertrude Stein is supposed to have said to Picasso when he completed his portrait of her in 1906.

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The film represents her depression by coating the night scenes in so much blue tint that even Picasso might suggest dialing it back.

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And on the family's only visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, young Patti slipped off alone to a hall of Picassos and was "smitten".

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