“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”





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Futurism drew on his fractured Cubist forms to express speed and motion.
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Dada and Surrealism adopted his use of found objects and unconscious symbolism.
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Abstract Expressionists saw in his late works a model for gestural freedom and emotional depth.
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Pop artists followed his lead in collapsing high and low culture, realism and abstraction.
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Contemporary artists continue to grapple with his legacy—sometimes emulating, sometimes rebelling, but never ignoring.