Pablo Picasso was an artist.
Bombing of Guernica . The bombing is the subject of a famous anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso , commissioned by the Spanish Republic . Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art . Pablo Picasso . Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ( 1907 ) , and Guernica ( 1937 ) , a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces .