Picasso

The History Channel has a squib about Pablo Picasso:

Pablo Picasso (photo) is considered to be among the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Born on 25 October in 1881, Picasso was noted for his fame, fortune, and love life, but, perhaps most importantly, he is known as a cofounder of the abstract style known as Cubism. He is also renowned for his distinctive "periods".
In Cubist works, subjects are disassembled and reconstructed abstractly, often from different viewpoints. Indeed it can be summed up in one of his most notable quotes: "Art is the lie that enables us to see the truth."
Though he lived most of his adult life in France, Picasso was born in Spain as Pablo Ruis y Picasso. It is said that, by thirteen, Picasso's skills as a painter were such that his own father, himself a painter and professor of art, vowed to give up painting because his son had already surpassed him.