Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, stage designer, printmaker, poet and playwright who spent most of his life in France. He was a co-founder of the cubist movement. Instead of showing realistic objects in the illusion of 3-dimensional space in the way that captivated artists since the renaissance, he enabled us to see what an object might look like if we could see more than one side of it at the same time. He broke up objects and figures into geometrical shapes and transformed them, according to their own notion of deeper truth.
His second major phase of cubism was Glass and a Bottle of Suze (1912). This was a clear example of synthetic cubism, in which cut paper fragments, often wallpaper or portions of newspaper pages were pasted