Picasso

Well, cubism! Picasso was an artist with a long career of strides that quickly evolved from style to style. Picasso, the various cubists, and all those influenced after cubism can only be understood through the development of cubism. Here I have included an example of Analytic Cubism by Picasso. There is a subject but it is seen from many different angles. The painting shows the whole subject. The colors are muted which is typical of Analytic Cubism because the important part is the breakdown and re-assemblage of the image. When I understood this goal of cubism I began to appreciate the work of Picasso as well as much of the work that is contemporary to his and later influenced by these short lived but influential times.