Pablo Picasso, together with Georges Braque (1882-1963), is credited with inventing Cubism, a modern art movement that simplifies topics to geometric patterns. Among the influences on the couple were Iberian sculpture, African masks, and Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne.¹⁾

When French art critic Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943) observed that Picasso and Braque's work was full of “bizarre cubiques,” he coined the term “Cubism.”²⁾

Picasso was a sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, dramatist, and print writer in addition to a painter.³⁾

According to legend, a Nazi commander spotted a painting of Guernica and questioned Picasso whether he had painted it. “No, you did”, Picasso said.⁴⁾

Picasso was known to carry a handgun loaded with blanks. He'd shoot it at anybody he thought uninteresting or at anyone who offended Cézanne.⁵⁾