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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Cubism

Invented Cubism's language and pushed fragmentation furthest, fastest, across both its Analytic and Synthetic phases.

Selected Key Works

Paintings from this archive that define Pablo Picasso's visual signature.

CubismLes Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

Open work

Signature Visual Language

Great artists repeat themselves in useful ways.

Picasso never settles on one system for long — Les Demoiselles d'Avignon breaks the figure into masks and planes, and by Three Musicians the fragments have flattened into bold, graphic color shapes.

Multiple simultaneous viewpoints
Fragmented, faceted form
Rapid stylistic reinvention