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"Everyone wants to comprehend painting. Let's they make an effort to understand the song of the wild birds? Why do they love a evening, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without wanting to understand them? Whereas where painting can be involved, they want to understand. Let them understand above all that the artist works from need; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom you need to ascribe forget about importance than so a lot of things in characteristics which attraction us but which we do not describe to ourselves. Those who attempt to describe an image are on the wrong track most of the time." (Pablo Picasso, 1934) In their biography of Pablo Picasso, Hans Ludwig and Chris Jaffe note that "(F)or him, fine art was always excitement: 'To find is finished ..'" Indeed, there could very well be no artist who produced more fine art than Picasso, whose tremendous oeuvre (which spanned most of his 91-season life) included a countless range of paintings and drawings. Picasso proved helpful in other mediums as well, notably sculpture and lithography, and his frequent experimentation with form makes him a useful case study by which to chart the growth of modernism as an artistic movement, and many of the artistic trends that could dominate the 20th century. At exactly the same time, one of the challenges involved in examining Picasso's body of work is the utter breadth of it all. As well as the many different mediums involved, Picasso's works within each medium are also significantly differed.
