During the first decades of our century, only a few people transformed the face of the world. Like Chaplin in cinema, Joyce in literature, Freud in psychology and Einstein in science, Picasso revolutionized painting by overthrowing all conventional points of view (while also crushing his own views if they became a hindrance to him). What he shared with these innovators was the awareness of the fundamental difference between an object and its image, which made it unacceptable to use the language of a simple reflection of reality. It was discovered that it was possible to express the difference between reality and form. Picasso's painting became the first obvious evidence of this revolution in consciousness and the opportunities that it opened up for the adventurous artist. An adventurous artist - perhaps this is the most accurate definition of his personality.