PICASSO PORTRAITS

From the beginning of his career until its end, Pablo Picassos prime subject was the human figure, and portraiture remained a favor ite genre for the artist. Picassos portraiture reflected the full range of his innovative styles--Symbolist, Cubist, Neoclassical, Surrealist, Expressionist. Depicting people in his intimate circle rather than working to commission enabled Picasso to take an expr essive, radically experimental approach to making portraits.