Pablo Picasso was a brilliant artist who loved to try completely new ways of painting! He showed the world that there are so many fantastic ways to make art. Pablo is one of the most famous artists who ever lived!
Pablo decided to play with shapes and colors, painting faces from two different sides at the exact same time! He created a super fun style of art called Cubism, using lots of cubes and tricky shapes that looked like a jigsaw puzzle. He loved using bright colors and making art out of everyday things he found. Over his long life, he made thousands of paintings, sculptures, and drawings!
- Pablo Picasso made over 50,000 works of art during his lifetime, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures!
- His first word was “piz,” which is short for “lapiz,” the Spanish word for pencil.
- Picasso could draw before he could talk, and his father gave him art lessons starting at age 7!
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