History Creator / PabloPicasso

Pablo Picasso (born [[OverlyLongName Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso]], 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) is considered to be the most famous, influential and important painter of the 20th century. Best known for his cubist style, he was a prolific and versatile artist who worked in - and helped to pioneer - many different styles and was both a painter and a sculptor.

* ShoutOut: Picasso made some paintings reinterpreting works of older masters, such as Diego Vélazquez's ''Art/LasMeninas''.

* ShoutOut: Picasso made some paintings reinterpreting works of older masters, such as Diego Vélazquez' ''Las Meninas''.

Works made by Picasso with their own TV Tropes pages include:

* ''Art/{{Guernica}}''

!!This creator provides examples of the following tropes:

* ArtImitatesLife: Picasso based some of his paintings on the Spanish Civil War, the Holocaust and the Korean War.

* Appears in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', in which he discovers his distinct style while playing Pictionary with the Warners.

* UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar: The 1938 bombardment of the Spanish town Guernica inspired Picasso to his most famous work ''Guernica''. Reportedly, when a German soldier found a photograph of it during the Nazi occupation and asked if Pacasso had done it, he replied "No, you did."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: David Attenborough tells a story in his autobiography about his attempt to create a highbrow station ident for [=BBC2=]. As he was already on good terms with both Picasso and Creator/IgorStravinsky, he figured it would be a real coup to have Picasso do the visuals and Stravinsky the music. Picasso was actually up for it, provided Stravinsky agreed too, but Stravinsky's death in 1971 put the kibosh on it.

* An early gag in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' has Mr. Potato Head rearrange his face and say to Hamm: "Look, I'm Picasso!" Hamm doesn't get it.

* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Picasso was already a millionaire during his lifetime, but after his death his work become more profitable than ever before.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Picasso devoted his entire life to his art and wasn't very fond of committed relationships. As mentioned, he was an infamous womanizer, [[MuseAbuse which isn't to say]] he treated his wives and girlfriends ''well''.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Picasso devoted his entire life to his art and wasn't very fond of committed relationships.
** Although like mentioned below, Picasso had several mistresses.

* {{Workaholic}}: Picasso was so prolific during his 75-year career that when he died in 1973, he had created an estimated 13,500 paintings, 100,000 engravings and graphic prints, 300 sculptures, and 34,000 book illustrations, more than the size of most museums' entire collections. He would produce paintings at such a rate that, from the time he woke up and started working to the time he went to sleep, he would produce so many paintings that the entire floor of his apartment would be carpeted in them. His roommate, journalist and poet Max Jacob, would often have to walk over them when leaving for work--indeed, art restorators working on Picasso paintings from this period must often remove Max's footprints from them. Astonishingly, he even burned his own paintings for warmth during the Winter.

* [[Workaholic Workaholic]]: Picasso was so prolific during his 75-year career that when he died in 1973, he had created an estimated 13,500 paintings, 100,000 engravings and graphic prints, 300 sculptures, and 34,000 book illustrations, more than the size of most museums' entire collections. He would produce paintings at such a rate that, from the time he woke up and started working to the time he went to sleep, he would produce so many paintings that the entire floor of his apartment would be carpeted in them. His roommate, journalist and poet Max Jacob, would often have to walk over them when leaving for work--indeed, art restorators working on Picasso paintings from this period must often remove Max's footprints from them. Astonishingly, he even burned his own paintings for warmth during the Winter.

* Workaholic: Picasso was so prolific during his 75-year career that when he died in 1973, he had created an estimated 13,500 paintings, 100,000 engravings and graphic prints, 300 sculptures, and 34,000 book illustrations, more than the size of most museums' entire collections. He would produce paintings at such a rate that, from the time he woke up and started working to the time he went to sleep, he would produce so many paintings that the entire floor of his apartment would be carpeted in them. His roommate, journalist and poet Max Jacob, would often have to walk over them when leaving for work--indeed, art restorators working on Picasso paintings from this period must often remove Max's footprints from them. Astonishingly, he even burned his own paintings for warmth during the Winter.

* {{Fanart}}: He famously made [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas_(Picasso) 58 variations]] on Diego Velasquez's ''Las Meninas''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: David Attenborough tells a story in his autobiography about his attempt to create a highbrow station ident for [=BBC2=]. As he was already on good terms with both Picasso and Creator/IgorStravinsky, he figured it would be a real coup to have Picasso do the visuals and Stravinsky the music. Picasso was actually up for it, provided Stravinsky agreed too, but Stravinsky's [[AuthorExistenceFailure Composer Existence Failure]] in 1971 put the kibosh on it.

* InfantImmortality. Averted in the painting ''Guernica'', where a mother cries over her dead baby.

* GrotesqueGallery: Most of his images.

Pablo Picasso (born [[OverlyLongSpanishName Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso]], 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) is considered to be the most famous, influential and important painter of the 20th century. Best known for his cubist style, he was a prolific and versatile artist who worked in - and helped to pioneer - many different styles and was both a painter and a sculptor.

Pablo Picasso (born [[OverlyLongSpanishName Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso]], 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) is considered to be the most famous, influential and important painter of the 20th century. Best known for his cubist style, he was a prolific and versatile artist who worked in - and helped to pioneer - many different styles and was both a painter as a sculptor.

Pablo Picasso (born [[OverlyLongSpanishName Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso]], 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) is considered to be the most famous, influential and important painter of the 20th century. Best known for his cubist style, he was a prolific and versatile artist who worked in and pioneered many different styles and was both a painter as a sculptor.

Pablo Picasso (born [[OverlyLongSpanishName Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso]], 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) is considered to be the most famous, influential and important painter of the 20th century. Best known for his cubist style, he was a versatile artist who worked in many different styles and was both a painter as a sculptor.