The Life and Artistic Journey of Pablo Picasso

TLDR Pablo Picasso, Spain's greatest artist, created over 20,000 works and is known for his unique artistic style. His art style changed dramatically throughout his life, with periods including the blue period, the rose period, the African period, the cubism period, neoclassicism and surrealism, and a combination of different styles in his later years.

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00:00 Pablo Picasso, Spain's greatest artist, created over 20,000 works and is known for his unique artistic style.
01:40 Pablo Picasso adopted the name Picasso because he found it more unique and resonant than his father's surname, Ruiz.
03:09 Picasso's artistic style changed dramatically throughout his life, and prior to 1900, his art was more realistic.
04:37 Picasso's artistic style changed dramatically throughout his life, with periods including the blue period, the rose period, the African period, the cubism period, neoclassicism and surrealism, and a combination of different styles in his later years.
06:07 Picasso was an extremely prolific artist, creating approximately 147,800 works of art throughout his life, including paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, illustrations, poems, and plays.
07:44 Picasso had many affairs and mistresses, including one with Marie Therese Walter, with whom he had a child, and he is known for his famous painting Guernica, which was created in response to the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
09:16 Picasso was one of the first celebrity artists of the modern world, and he died with a net worth estimated to be around 500 million dollars, with several of his paintings selling for over 100 million dollars today.
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