The Man with the Lamb

Abstract

One aspect of Picasso's greatness is his ability to develop, change and expand his means of expression while persisting in the use of significant subject matter. For this very reason there is a sense of totality and universality in his work lacking in the necessarily more fragmentary attempts of those who came after him. In regard to this particular achievement Picasso's work is comparable to that of Einstein. Just as the great physicist has created a total world view which stands beside, while at the same time replacing, that of Newton, so Picasso stands beside the great masters of the past while he has, at the same time, launched into an entirely new and strange world. Nothing that has come after Picasso and Einstein is conceivable without their achievement, even though the further developments of this century have already carried us a good distance beyond them.