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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso ,also known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973), was a Spanish
painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult
life in France. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known
for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture the co-invention of collage, and
for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the
proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by
the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.
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