Pablo Picasso

Possibly the most influential person in Art history, Pablo Picasso who, together with his friend George Braque, was responsible for taking art on a ninety degree trip out of reality. It was called cubism and it hit the art world of the early twentieth century with the force of a tidal wave. It gave new perspectives on media being used and created new technologies for painting and sculpture.
Since the Renaissance the relationship within art had been one of Painter-Object, but with the advent of Cubism, the Method was elevated to the same level as the Object, so the relationship became Painter-Method-Object and extended further to became Painter-Method. This achievement rewrote the dictionary on art. Artists were forced to conclude that Art existed separate to both the Painter and the Object and after a difficult birth the concept of "Art for Art's sake" began to emerge.
Pablo Picasso's name is not one that is usually associated with Shamanism, but I hope to show that there are enough connections for this to be reconsidered. Much of Shamanism went underground, so deep underground that many shamen would pass on their knowledge without mentioning the word shaman. Information passed from person to person through the generations without members of the tradition necessarily having conscious knowledge of the tradition, at least until such time as it was possible for the tradition to resurface.
At the time of Picasso, Shamanism was still very much underground and invisible, whereas now traditions have