Pablo Picasso. A familiar name to many, for better or worse. Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. He is best known, as pablopicasso.org states, “for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.” This was an odd progression considering the fact that most of his younger years were spent painting in a predominantly realistic style. Everything began to change around the 12th century, when Picasso began to push the limits of his creativity and the means with which he experimented. Some of these many mediums were oil paintings, sculpture, drawings, and even architecture. Perhaps his use of a wide range of mediums was part of the reason he became so famous or perhaps it was the boundaries of art and plagiarism that he was pushing. In any case, Picasso gained a mass audience and a great fortune during his lifetime. Something that no other artist before him had managed to achieve. According to Pablopicasso.org, his works were and still are "the subject of endless analysis, gossip, dislikes, adoration and rumors." Perhaps one of his most famous and strongest political statements made in a painting was made in his work, Guernica. So what does Pablo Picasso have to say about the meaning and logic behind Guernica, what is his say on the matter? Guernica was initially a work that Picasso would create for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. Guernica, however, did not easily catch up with Picasso. Pbs.org states that Pablo Picasso sought inspiration for “three months” before “April 27, 1937, when unprecedented atrocities were perpetrated on Franco's behalf against the civilian population of a small Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen for...... middle of paper......, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 28, 2011.) Timyee Cheng "Art and the Spanish Civil War -Pablo Picasso and Robert Capa." Timmiecheng.com. Timyee Cheng, 2003. Web. (Accessed November 28, 2011). "From Pablo, with love." Time [serial online]. March 23, 1970;95(12):84. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. (Accessed November 28, 2011)"Guernica." www.pbs.org. pbs, n.d. (Accessed November 28, 2011) Pablo Picasso, his works, quotes and biography. 0. .(Accessed November 28, 2011)"Pablo Picasso His works, quotes and biography." Copyright © 2011 www.PabloPicasso.org. All rights reserved.. Np, n.d. (Accessed November 28, 2011)