Pablo Picasso innovated the course of the 20th century art with his unconventional artworks. Inspired by African and Iberian art, his figures, that attempted to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane, are Cubist, Surrealist, Neoclassical and Expressionist. “Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?” - PABLO PICASSO The composition of this figure, deconstructed in cubistic forms, is nevertheless imbued with a timeless monumentality.