Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the
artist Pablo Picasso.
Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century.
Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades--and included
thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and
tapestries--his work continued to evolve in response to his own life and
to events in the world around him. This elegant introduction to Picasso
offers lively artistic and biographical commentary, as well as beautiful
reproductions of key works. Readers will discover why Picasso's work is
often categorized by periods and his masterful achievements in the
realms of neoclassicism, surrealism, and sculpture--in short, how his
tremendous body of work reflected the development of modern art in the
20th century.