毕加索可以说是20世纪最有影响力的艺术家。在长达七十年的职业生涯中——包括成千上万的绘画，雕塑，陶瓷，素描，版画和挂毯——作为对他自己的生活和他周围世界发生的事件的回应，他的作品还在不断发展。这本优雅的毕加索的入门书生动地评论了他的艺术作品和生平，还精美地复制了他的一些重要作品。读者们会发现为什么毕加索的作品经常按“时期”分类，以及他在新古典主义，超现实主义和雕塑领域的杰出成就——简而言之，他数量庞大的作品如何反映了20世纪现代艺术的发展。

Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades - and included thousands of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and tapestries -his work continued to evolve in response to his own life and to events in the world around him. This elegant introduction to Picasso offers lively artistic and biographical commentary, as well as beautiful reproductions of key works. Readers will discover why Picasso's work is often categorised by ''periods'' and his masterful achievements in the realms of neoclassicism, surrealism, and sculpture - in short, how his tremendous body of work reflected the development of modern art in the 20th century.