PICASSO, Pablo

Picasso began his career as an exceptionally talented realistic Spanish painter. His first genuine breakthrough came after he settled in France. He is generally credited with initiating Cubism in the first decade of this century. Over the years, until World War II, he passed through a succession of artistic styles, mirroring the rapidly changing art world with its manyisms(Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and so forth). Some of Picasso's many innovative contributions...