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The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso — has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude.

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His prolific output includes over 20, paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social, and amorous messages. His creative styles transcend realism and abstraction, Cubism , Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. Living intermittently in Paris and Spain until , his work during these years suggests feelings of desolation and darkness inspired in part by the suicide of his friend Casagemas.

Picasso moved to Paris in and settled in the artist quarter Bateau-Lavoir, where he lived among bohemian poets and writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire — and Max Jacob — In At the Lapin Agile In this painting, he used his own image for the harlequin figure and abandoned the daunting blues in favor of vivid hues, red for example, to celebrate the lives of circus performers categorically labeled his Rose Period.

In Paris, he found dedicated patrons in American siblings Gertrude — and Leo — Stein, whose Saturday-evening salons in their home at 27, rue des Fleurus was an incubator for modern artistic and intellectual thought. At the Steins he met other artists living and working in the city—generally referred to as the School of Paris —such as Henri Matisse — Painted in —6, Gertrude Stein The basic principles of Analytic Cubism —12 , with its fragmentation of three-dimensional forms on a two-dimensional picture plane, are embodied in Still Life with a Bottle of Rum The techniques of Analytic Cubism were developed by Picasso and the French artist Georges Braque — , who met in