Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor — co-founder of Cubism, creator of Guernica and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — one of the most prolific and commercially successful artists in history, who reinvented his style multiple times across eight decades.

Creates Cubism — the most radical formal revolution in Western art since the Renaissance — by fragmenting objects into multiple simultaneous perspectives on a flat surface, destroying the illusionistic space that had governed European painting since Brunelleschi.