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.

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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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Margaret Keane’s big-eyed children gaze unabashedly at a girl sketched by Pablo Picasso, and cartoonist Rose O’Neill rubs elbows with Vincent van Gogh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

In the 1980s Hockney invented a kind of photo collage he dubbed "joiners" that used slightly different images to produce a patchwork akin to the cubist painting of his hero Pablo Picasso.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Moving a roughly 86-ton spacecraft, especially without damaging it, is not as simple as placing a Pablo Picasso in a padded crate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

It has such an impact on all of them to this day it shows that Miles is Da Vinci, Stravinsky, Picasso.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

She wanted to, yes, but maybe she didn’t have that thing that makes it all worthwhile, whether you hit it big like Picasso or not: the need to.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin