Pablo Picasso was a famous artist of the twentieth century. He was born Pablo Blasco on October, 25th 1881, in Malaga, Spain. Born to, José Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso, from whom he acquired his, surname Picasso. His father Jose was a professor for the school of Arts and Crafts and his mother Maria who also was an artist. At the age of 14, Picasso began studying at the School of Fine Art under the academic instruction of his father. He developed his artistic talent at an extraordinary rate and was considered an art prodigy. He was given an entree examination for an art school which would take the average person to finish in a month. He completed this exam in one day; this was one of his earlier sign of creativity. Pablo Picasso became a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. Throughout his long lifetime, he produced around 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures. He was one of the most recognized figures in 20th century, he is best known as the co-founder, along with George Braque, of cubism better know as the basis for abstract art.
Picasso was not an inventor, or a mathematician like Einstein, but the work he and Georges Braque where able to accomplish between 1911 and 1918 can be compared with intuition thinkers like Einstein and Bell. Picasso was able to foresee the future of mass culture and how high art could refresh itself through common vernaculars. Cubism was very hard to read, willfully ambiguous, and yet demotic too. (Mallen, 2001, p.4) It still remains the most influential art dialect of the early 20th century. With one of his most famous murals Guernica Picasso was able to use his creative process he was able to recognize the problems and clearly express them with this mural. In 1937 he was asked to paint the centerpiece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair. It took him two to three months to come up with the inspiration to paint the mural .Those Picasso was dealing with his own...