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(1881-1973)
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born the son of an art teacher and not surprisingly, displayed enormous talent at a very early age. He was a painter, a sculptor, a ceramicist and a graphic artist. In fact, he was a master of any medium or art form he chose to try his hand at. To call Picasso a prolific artist would be an understatement for the man created a staggering number of paintings, sculptures and drawings.
Picasso, along with Georges Braque succeeded in his attempts to create a revolutionary new art form - Cubism. These two artists let the art world know and see that several points of view of an object could be viewed at one time. In addition, they put forward the idea of spatial reconstruction and they expressed perfectly the idea that even though depth could be "faked", painting is in fact a 2-dimensional art form.