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It s safe to say Pablo Picasso is one of the world s most legendary artists. As one of the creators of Cubism, his works remain celebrated in museums and galleries across the globe. Here are eight facts about the iconic artist.
1. Pablo Picasso s real name was Pablo Ruiz.
Well, actually Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. The Spanish artist adopted his mother s Italian surname because he thought it suited him better. Here s how he explained it to Hungarian artist George Brassaï: [Picasso] was stranger, more resonant, than Ruiz . Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain. Picasso is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance. Can you imagine me calling myself Ruiz? Pablo Ruiz? Diego-José Ruiz? Or Juan-Népomucène Ruiz?