Artist field note

Pablo Picasso

The artist who kept breaking the rules.

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The Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso
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The Weeping Woman

1937

A face splinters under grief. Private anguish becomes inseparable from the violence surrounding Guernica.

The five in one idea

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