This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Ruiz and the second or maternal family name is Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso, 1908–1909
Birth name
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso[1]
Born
25 October 1881
Málaga, Spain
Died
8 April 1973 (aged 91)
Mougins, France
Resting place
Château of Vauvenargues
43.554142°N 5.604438°E
Spouse
Olga Khokhlova (1918–55)
Jacqueline Roque (1961–73)
Nationality
Spanish
Field
Painting, drawing, sculptureprintmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing
Training
José Ruiz y Blasco (father),
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Movement
Cubism
Works
Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon(1907)
Guernica (1937)
The Weeping Woman (1937)
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a …show more content…
In a 1945 interview with Jerome Seckler, Picasso stated: "I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. ... But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in a special way to show my politics."[49] His Communist militancy, common among continental intellectuals and artists at the time (although it was officially banned in Francoist Spain), has long been the subject of some controversy; a notable source or demonstration thereof was a quote commonly attributed to Salvador Dalí (with whom Picasso had a rather strained