Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter born in 1881 who lived in both Paris and Spain. He is known for works from his Blue Period between 1904-1906 which reflected darkness and themes of poverty, loneliness, and despair, as well as his Rose Period beginning in 1906 and influential Cubist works like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon from 1907. One of his most famous works is the anti-war painting Guernica from 1927 which was inspired by the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.