Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist who co-founded the Cubist movement, co-invented collage as a technique, and is credited with inventing constructed or assemblage sculpture. Picasso is renowned as the most influential artist of the 20th century. Throughout his life, Picasso made several pieces of iconic anti-war art, the most notable being Guernica, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi’s devastating bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso’s Dove of Peace was chosen as the emblem for the first International Peace Conference in Paris in 1949. The simple, graphic line drawing is one of the world’s most recognizable symbols of peace. He also named his fourth child Paloma, the Spanish word for dove.