Artist field note

Pablo Picasso

The artist who kept breaking the rules.

Appears inThe GiantsSpain

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

1907

Five bodies confront us in a space that no longer behaves normally. Inherited ideas of beauty, perspective and the nude fracture.

The five in one idea

Picasso treated art history not as a set of rules, but as material to be rebuilt.