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Radical innovation: Cubism and the breakdown of representation Picasso’s co-creation of Cubism with Georges Braque around 1907–1914 marks the clearest evidence of his revolutionary impact. Works such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and the collaborative analytic and synthetic Cubist works that followed dismantled Renaissance perspective and conventional representation. Objects and figures were fractured into interlocking planes and multiple viewpoints; pictorial space was rethought. This intellectual and visual leap did not merely change style; it redefined what a painting could be—a space for idea, structure, and simultaneous perception. Cubism’s influence spread across painting, sculpture, architecture, and design, becoming a foundational pillar of modernism. genius picasso 2021
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Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art This intellectual and visual leap did not merely