Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

This Spanish expatriate was a great influencing painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer of the 20th century. He and Georges Braque worked together. The two of them were the co-creators of Cubism-a way of art. The deep influencer was born on October twenty-fifth of the year 1881 and died April eighth of 1973- living to 91 years old. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain and was the first born to his family. His father was a artist and a professor at the school of fine arts. To add on to the jobs his father operated, he also worked as a curator for the museum in Malaga. His father's interest in art grew on Picasso as he began to study under his father. As soon as he finished studying his fathers jobs, he went to the Academy of Arts for one year before moving to Paris. In 1901, he went to Paris because of the beautiful, idealistic and great views he found to exercise is new styles and experiment with many different forms of art.

During these moments of fooling around, he underwent his great and world-wide known work of surrealism and cubic style-which he was the founder of. Based on these forms of art, he created multiple wonderful and largely known pieces of art that became a huge part of the industry. To this day, Picasso continues to show his influential pieces and techniques through his work. Pablo Picasso was mainly known because of his technical mastery, visionary creativity and profound empathy. All these qualities have proven that Pablo Picasso as the disquieting Spaniard with the sombrepiercing eyes as a revolutionary artist. Picasso was dearly devoted to his artwork. Close to 80 years of his life, Picasso was faithful to his pieces. These pieces, he believed would keep him alive- these pieces then led to the development of modern art in the 20th century. Picasso made around 147,800 pieces of art, and among all these pieces-big and small- his top works were Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust and Asleep. To show the value of his impressions, the piece Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was sold for a price of $106.5 million dollars in 2010- the world record price for a artwork. Fidel Castro Fidel Castro, a Cuban dictator starting in 1958 and ending in 2008 was born near Biran, Cuba, in 1926.

At the start, Castro, with his forces, started a crusade of guerrilla warfare which then caused the displacement of Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator at that time. Castro was all for the communist domestic policies and commenced military and economic relations with the Soviet Union that caused to tense relations with the United States. The great tightness between the U.S. and Cuba reached its' peak in 1962 with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although Castro seemed to do many bad things, he also made improvements to healthcare and education while he was the dictator of Cuba. Castro had heartlessly persecuted and imprisoned anyone who he thought was a threat to his morals, or a enemy to his spot. Thousands of protesters were killed in their country, or killed trying to flee Castro's dictatorship. Castro was also at blame for instigating communist revolutions in countries all around the world.

In 1991, the collapse of Communism in the Soviet union and its negative impact on Cuba's economy led Castro to relax on the restrictions over time. Castro led his country to become the first ever communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a well known symbol of the communist revolution in Latin America. He controlled his country's political, economic, and cultural views. He created a new constitution and became the president of the State Council- making sure he was the head of Cuba. Castro ended up resigning/giving his power away to his brother-Raul Castro because of his bad health. Castro did not fully give over all his power to his brother considering he had a lot of say in the politics in Cuba and other countries. Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90, leaving his country in the hands of his brother.

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