📙 Pablo Ruiz Picasso, born on 25th October 1881, in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright, who spent most of his adult life in France. Considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Picasso's best known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture and the co-invention of collage, along with the wide range of styles that he helped to develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces during the Spanish Civil War.