Pablo Picasso was a renowned Spanish artist born in 1881 in Spain and died in 1973 in France. He is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and helped pioneer Cubism, a groundbreaking art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. Picasso dramatically changed the traditional ways of representing three-dimensional space in two dimensions, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of all time.