Pablo Picasso is a Spanish painter, sculptor and poet. Picasso was a founder and one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. He was active in peacekeeping work and his art was influenced by the horrors of war.

Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 A.D. to a traditional artistic family, from an early age he showed the talent of drawing and began to display his works from the age of 14, and to achieve his artistic ambition he left Spain to Paris, where he became part of the new artistic movement, his early artistic life passed through different stages. The first stages are known as (the blue period).

In his late teens, his paintings were dominated by various shades of dark blue, and they were also often melancholic, and this included a famous selfie where Picasso looked much older at his age of about 20 years, and during the period from 1904AD - 1906AD, Picasso entered the stage It is known as the (period of roses), resulting in the loss of obscurity of the previous (blue period).

The tone of cheerfulness and optimism helped attract a growing number of patrons and people interested in his work in particular the American art collector Leo and Gertrude Stein, and art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Kahnweiler was influential in helping to put Picasso on safe financial foundations, and Picasso later noted; (What would have happened to us if Kahnweiler hadn't had a business idea?)

In 1907 AD, Picasso continued his artistic experiments and was inspired by African art, and this led to an early form of Cubism and also one of his most controversial paintings, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a picture depicting five prostitutes in a brothel. It is an attractive and original exploration of modernity in art, but When shown in his studio, art critics reacted wildly negatively.

In the years before World War I, Picasso, along with artists such as Georges Braque, continued to develop a new form of painting known as Cubism. Cubism involved depicting the essence of the subject on painting, but it nullified some features and the colors were steadily dull gray and brown.

In 1914 AD, Picasso was living in Avignon with his fellow artists, he called his friends from the French artists for the army, but he managed to continue painting during the war, yet the German-born Kahnweiler was banished from France and left Picasso without a merchant to take care of him. In 1918 AD, Picasso married a dancer. Ballet Olga Khokhlova, shortly after starting a fruitful relationship with French art dealer Paul Rosenberg, Rosenberg became good friends with Picasso and helped the couple settle in Paris.

This gave Picasso a new artistic social circle, and Paris was considered an artistic hotspot in the twenties, attracting many creative artists, and Picasso and his wife Khokulva had a stormy relationship. Picasso's bohemian nature intertwined with Khokhlova's social grace, and they were married until 1955, but Picasso had several mistresses in the twenties and thirties.

Focusing on more classical works of art, Picasso became interested in depicting the human figure in the style of Neoclassicism to some extent influenced by artists such as Renoir and Ingres, although he always retained the unique expression, and Picasso was an instinctive and natural compassion for those who had suffered, especially if it was the result of His natural sympathy and desire for equality led him to join the French Communist Party.

During the Spanish Civil War he supported the Republicans and sponsored the intense hatred of Franco and what he had done for Spain, and one of Picasso's most famous paintings was his mural in the Guernica bombing (1937 AD), where Germanica planes carried out an explosion by German aircraft and participated in the bombing of civilian areas, and the bombing of Guernica was an important development In modern warfare as he demonstrated a new ability to extend the horrors of war to the civilian population, the bombing became international news through English journalist George Steer.

Picasso's painting helped immortalize the tragedy as a major event in the twentieth century, Picasso was so angry with Franco that he never allowed his works to circulate in Spain during Franco's lifetime, until it finally arrived in Spain in 1981, and Picasso was well aware of a political dimension of art.

Among the other major paintings of Picasso is his simple bird, which is a symbol of peace, and Picasso donated the World Peace Conference supported by the Soviet Union in 1949 AD. This was an indication of a new stage in Picasso's art based on the strength of simplicity, and Picasso was a member of the French Communist Party until his death. Picasso is remarkably prolific, his artwork totaling nearly 50,000, and this included 1,885 paintings, 1,228 sculptures 2,880, and he died at the age of 91.