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Pablo Picasso was probably the most influential modern painterof the 20th century. Born

in Spain, he lived in France much of his life painting, sculpting, making ceramics, and

doing graphic artwork. His style was quite avant-garde and unique, and he changed it

many times during his career. Picasso was one of the artists to lay the foundations for

Cubism, a style that used angular, cube-like structures to depict people and things. He

loved to shock the public with his strange, powerful paintings, drawings, prints, and

sculptures. Picasso was among the first to make collages by pasting material onto the

canvas.

Before his 50th birthday, theSpaniard from Malaga had become the very prototype of the

modern artist as public figure. No painter before him had had a mass audience in his own

lifetime. Picasso's audience--meaning people who had heard of him and seen his work, at

least in reproduction--was in the tens, possibly hundreds, of millions. He and his......

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