Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. His contributions to the history of Modern Art—namely Cubism, the movement he developed with Georges Braque between 1908 and 1914—have influenced countless artists, such as Willem de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg, through his radical use of form and perspective. Born on October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain, Picasso showed a prodigious talent for art at an early age. He studied at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid before travelling to Barcelona and Paris, where he eventually settled in 1904. His prolific career began with his Blue and Rose Periods, followed by his proto-Cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). His innovations were not limited to painting, and Picasso found new ways of expressing figure and space through collage, sculpture, and ceramics. Deeply affected by the Spanish Civil War, Picasso created what is arguably his greatest and most overtly political work with Guernica(1937), a mural-sized painting depicting the horrors of war in contrasting grayscale. The Spaniard has museums devoted to his oeuvre in Paris, Barcelona, and Málaga. He died on April 8, 1973 at the age of 91 in Mougins, France.