Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picasso is always a legend, indeed almost a myth. In the public view he has long since been the personification of genius in modem art. Picasso is an idol, one of those rare creatures who act as crucibles in which the diverse and often chaotic phenomena of culture are focussed, who seem to body forth the artistic life of their age in one person. The same thing happens in politics, science, sport, And it happens in art.

Picasso the Legend

The Early Years 1890 - 1901

The Blue and Rose Periods 19Ol - 19o6

Cubism 19o6 - 1915

Classicism and Surrealism 1916 - 1936

War, Art and Politics 1937 - 1953

The Man and the Myth 1954 - 1973

Pablo Picasso: A Chronology