Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was born in Malaga, Spain and spent nearly his entire adult life in France. He was simultaneously a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer. Some call him the most influential artist of the twentieth century as he pioneered (along with Georges Braque) the fracturing of the two-dimensional picture plane to create the Cubist style, which then influenced nearly every period of art from the mid-twentieth century to today.