Picasso, the great Spanish painter, was born in 1881 and died in 1973. Before he passed away, he still took up his brushes to start a new picture. He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to paint pictures like a young man. That's why we have him the "youngest" painter. Young people welcomeideas. They are always trying new things and new ways of doing things.

    Most painters discover a style of their own and stick to that, especiallypeople like their pictures. As the artist grows older his pictures may change, but not very much. But Picasso was like a man who had notfound his own style of painting. He was still trying to find the perfect expression for his own idea.

    Picasso painted what he saw with his mind as well as with his eyes. Gertrude Stein, a famous American writer who knew him said that he painted from memory, not as he saw ithis eyes. Picasso painted a picture of her in 1906. People complained that the painting of Miss Stein didn't look like her. But thirty years later Gertrude Stein said that Picasso's painting of her was the only picture she knew that showed her as she really was.