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Born in Malaga Spain to Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso Lopez
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His family moved to Barcelona, and he entered the local art academy (La Llorja)
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Blue Period- characterized by somber tones and themes of poverty and despair
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bridging traditional art and modernism
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Picasso was influenced by African art (masks, sculptures), Greek mythology, and Spanish culture
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fragmenting the subject into geometric forms
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powerful responses to conflict
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The Spanish Civil War inspired an anti-war masterpiece in Guernica
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picasso joined the communist party
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Living in South France, fame grew internationally, winning the Stalin Peace Prize
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Pablo Picasso, age 91, died of congestive heart failure in his home in Mougins, France