Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (; ; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. 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
The Nature of Truth way Richard Wright's "Native Son" is a thriller. And it's an erudite reader's novel in the way of Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" is. Troncoso's work places the reader on a knife's edge of suspense, while challenging the reader to examine and question "The [very] Nature of Truth", whether that truth be racially defined, intellectually constructed, or a scepter rising from ancient ideals of right and wrong... Troncoso's "The Nature of Truth" informs his mature works—"From This Wicked Patch of Dust" and ""—as they examine the ideas of borders, their permeability, and their dualistic nature of the real and the