Explore Picasso through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like painter or sculptor. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Picasso meaning
A surname.
Using Picasso
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- Useful related words include: pablo picasso, painter, sculptor, sculpturer.
- In the example corpus, picasso often appears in combinations such as: pablo picasso, picasso and, picasso was.
Context around Picasso
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Picasso
- In this selection, "picasso" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, national, pablo, claude, administration, masterpieces and paris stand out and add context to how "picasso" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and pablo picasso it felt and by claude picasso the director. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "picasso" sits close to words such as adele, adolf and agendas, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with picasso
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Picasso, Picasso, Picasso, it was what people wanted. (8 words)
As a teenager, I was obsessed with Picasso. (8 words)
Picasso grew tired of his mistress Dora Maar ; Picasso and Gilot began to live together. (15 words)
His marriage to Roque was also a means of revenge against Gilot; with Picasso's encouragement, Gilot had divorced her then husband, Luc Simon, with the plan to marry Picasso to secure the rights of her children as Picasso's legitimate heirs. (42 words)
In addition to Ms. Engel, she is survived by Claude Picasso, the director of Picasso Administration, which manages the artist’s estate; by Paloma Picasso, the fashion and jewelry designer best known for her perfumes; and four grandchildren. (38 words)
Picasso's marriage to Khokhlova soon ended in separation rather than divorce, as French law required an even division of property in the case of divorce, and Picasso did not want Khokhlova to have half his wealth. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
In addition to Ms. Engel, she is survived by Claude Picasso, the director of Picasso Administration, which manages the artist’s estate; by Paloma Picasso, the fashion and jewelry designer best known for her perfumes; and four grandchildren.
Picasso, Picasso, Picasso, it was what people wanted.
His marriage to Roque was also a means of revenge against Gilot; with Picasso's encouragement, Gilot had divorced her then husband, Luc Simon, with the plan to marry Picasso to secure the rights of her children as Picasso's legitimate heirs.
Recent major exhibitions Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, an exhibition of 150 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs from the Musée National Picasso in Paris.
And while the Musée Picasso in Antibes will dedicate a show to the last years of his life – Picasso 1969-1972.
Pablo Picasso’s The Studio (1955) Here is Picasso adopting the window motif, as homage to his late rival.
After Gris' death, Stein said to Picasso, "You never realized his meaning because you did not have it", to which Picasso replied, "You know very well that I did".
Although Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, Gertrude Stein wrote in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that "Juan Gris was the only person whom Picasso wished away".
La Tête d'obsidienne (1974) (translated as Picasso's Mask) concerns Picasso, and visual art more generally.
Marie-Thérèse lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her, and hanged herself four years after Picasso's death.
Picasso especially admired the works of El Greco ; elements such as his elongated limbs, arresting colors, and mystical visages are echoed in Picasso's later work.
Picasso gave Warsaw's museum over a dozen of his ceramics, drawings and color prints. citation Around this time, Picasso took up writing as an alternative outlet.
Picasso grew tired of his mistress Dora Maar ; Picasso and Gilot began to live together.
Picasso's early sculptures were carved from wood or modeled in wax or clay, but from 1909 to 1928 Picasso abandoned modeling and instead made sculptural constructions using diverse materials.
Picasso's marriage to Khokhlova soon ended in separation rather than divorce, as French law required an even division of property in the case of divorce, and Picasso did not want Khokhlova to have half his wealth.
After enthralling audiences globally, "Imagine Picasso" finally came to Switzerland, offering an immersive celebration of the artistic legacy of one of the 20th century's most influential creators.
A highlight of the current selection of works is a 1958 tapestry version of Picasso’s groundbreaking 1907 painting “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” woven by Jacqueline Dürrbach.
As a teenager, I was obsessed with Picasso.
But for a house whose archives include pieces by artists like Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Alphonse Mucha and Pablo Picasso, it felt fitting.
But she too soon became plagued by ill health and, once again, Picasso's gaze started to wander.
Common combinations with picasso
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pablo picasso 33×
- picasso and 15×
- picasso was 10×
- of picasso 9×
- and picasso 8×
- like picasso 6×
- picasso the 5×
- picasso in 5×
- picasso as 5×
- picasso had 5×