Pablo Picasso

Have you ever tried to draw someone and wished you could show every side at once? Pablo Picasso did that on purpose. Born in 1881, Picasso became one of the most famous artists of the early 20th century. He didn’t paint pictures that looked exactly like real life. Instead, he played with shape and view so we could see many angles at once.

His biggest idea was Cubism — painting objects and people as if they were made of cubes and triangles. Imagine looking at a toy from the front and the side, then drawing both at the same time; that’s Cubism. Picasso shocked people with a painting called Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and later made Guernica to show how terrible war can be. He worked in painting, sculpture, ceramics and made thousands of artworks.

Picasso changed how artists think. He proved art doesn’t have to follow rules — it can be bold, strange, funny, or sad. His experiments opened the door to modern art and inspired artists for generations. The next time you doodle, try breaking shapes apart and rebuilding them — that's Picasso’s playful trick. He lived 1881–1973 and left a world where art is free to surprise. Today museums around the world show his work and children still copy his playful shapes.