Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist who co-founded the Cubist movement, co-invented collage as a technique, and is credited as inventing constructed or assemblage sculpture. Picasso is renowned as the most influential artist of the 20th century. Picasso made several pieces of iconic anti-war art throughout his life, the most notable being Guernica, a painting that focused the attention of the world on the Spanish Civil War. Later Picasso’s Dove of Peace, chosen as the emblem for the first International Peace Conference in Paris in 1949, became a work that he would develop into a simple drawing that is now one of the world’s most recognizable symbols of peace.