He has taken the world into many places and has enabled us to see many abstract creations through his artwork alone. Among his many contributions to art, his most important include pioneering the modern art movement called cubism, inventing collage as an artistic technique, and developing assemblage in sculpture. ... It had dimensions, the human form was reassembled into pieces, and it set the stage for abstract art. During his abstract moment, Picasso met a French artist named Georges Braque, and they instantly had a connection. ... He left many great achievements with the world, which in...

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The ancient Iberian sculpture from Spain, which was African art was what paved the way for Picasso to become well known for his technique of cubism, He incorporated simplified forms of the source into striking portraits. ... Picasso started this period of Cubism and his works took on a cube shaped abstract figure. ... Picasso also brought controversy to the art world while he lived in Paris during World War I and the Spanish Civil War, as he made gloomy paintings in an abstract style, many showing skulls. ...

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