“By blowing up the look of things, Picasso was saying,
‘I’m getting beyond surface appearances to the core.'”
Simon Schama (The Power of Art, BBC)

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
Self Portrait from 1896 (Museu Picasso, Barcelona)

Self Portrait from 1907 (Národni Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic)

Self Portrait from 1971, “Self portrait facing death” (Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo)

“Cubism with a conscience.”
Simon Schama (The Power of Art, BBC)

Guernica from 1937 (Reina Sofia, Madrid)