Picasso
Fragmented faces painter
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who dominated 20th-century art.
He co-founded Cubism and produced an enormous body of work across multiple styles.
Used allusively, Picasso suggests artistic genius or radical creativity: She's the Picasso of pastry design.
Something called a Picasso is a painting by him, often worth tens of millions.
French cubism pioneer
- GuernicaBasque town attacked aerially
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- analyticExamining by decomposition
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
collage · geometric · distortion · simultaneity · deconstruction · assemblage · primitivism · angular
Spanish coastal city
- BarcelonaCatalan capital city
- MadridSpain's governmental seat
- AndalusiaSpain's southernmost autonomous community
- CataloniaAutonomous northeastern Spanish community
bullfighting · flamenco · Civil War · exile · Mediterranean · matador · toreador · Iberian
Supreme artistic achievement
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- paletteSurface for mixing pigments
- studioCreative professional's workspace
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
draftsmanship · etching · lithograph · ceramics · sculpture · painting · drawing · printmaking
Think deeply about
- loverRomantic intimate
- wivesMarried female partners
- childrenYoung human beings
- ClaudeTraditional French given name
bohemian · charisma · mythology · bull · dove · peace symbol · Côte d'Azur
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
trailblazer · groundbreaking · transformation · radical · influential · legacy · twentieth-century · Matisse
Braque
French cubism pioneer
- GuernicaBasque town attacked aerially
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- analyticExamining by decomposition
synthetic · collage · geometric · distortion · simultaneity · deconstruction · assemblage · primitivism · angular · faceted
Málaga
Spanish coastal city
- BarcelonaCatalan capital city
- MadridSpain's governmental seat
- AndalusiaSpain's southernmost autonomous community
Catalonia · bullfighting · flamenco · Civil War · exile · Mediterranean · matador · toreador · Iberian · Minotaur
masterpiece
Supreme artistic achievement
brushwork · draftsmanship · etching · lithograph · ceramics · sculpture · painting · drawing · printmaking · prolific
muse
Think deeply about
Claude · bohemian · charisma · mythology · bull · dove · peace symbol · Côte d'Azur
revolutionary
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
visionary · trailblazer · groundbreaking · transformation · radical · influential · legacy · twentieth-century · Matisse · Dalí
- artistspainter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci, cartoonists
- Spanish Cultureflamenco, paella, Goya, tapas, bullfighting
- 20th Century IconsEinstein, Churchill, Gandhi, Hitler, FDR
- child prodigiesMozart, Einstein, Bobby Fischer, Shirley Temple, Judy Garland
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- Hispanic StudiesSpanish literature, Spanish language, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Spanish drama
PicassoNorman Rockwell
photorealism · hyperrealism · Vermeer · trompe-l'oeil · naturalism
PicassoVermeer
Baroque Dutch painter
Emily Dickinson · recluse · ascetic · monogamist · self-effacing