Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
El arte es la mentira que nos permite comprender la verdad.
Artists
Pablo Picasso
Born in Malaga in 1881, Picasso co-founded Cubism and transformed 20th-century art. He left some fifty thousand works and reinvented his style every few years; Guernica remains the defining anti-war image.
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