Cubism began around 1907 in Paris.  It was led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The movement broke the barrier on how art could be portrayed on a canvas.  It wasn't meant to be realistic or life-like in any way.  Instead it was meant to challenge the artist to go beyond a two-dimensional appearance. To look at a subject from every possible angle and then piece together fragments from different vantage points to create the image. Instead of appearing as one piece or single image, the painting was meant to look like something that was built by assembling different pieces into a collage of sorts. The result was an almost unrealistic 3-D image which looked like altered reality and paved the way for the next movement...Surrealism. 

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Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. With a name like that, you are destined for great things. Picasso was very productive as an artists during his life time.  He was obsessed with challenging himself to constantly do something new and different and prove that he was, in fact, the best. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs. Read more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso