Pablo Picasso is the undisputed master of modernism. He was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and designer of theater sets. In France he and his friend Georges Braque were the Cubist movement leaders. They replace the traditional systems of color, volume, and perspective with a system of geometric symbols. From 1920 with great technical and stylistic originality his paintings leaned towards surrealism. In 1937, a civil war was tearing Spain apart. Picasso got severely affected by the bombing of the town of Guernica. At the Paris world fair, he represented the tragedy of the city to denounce the Spanish government. This monumental painting is one of the best-known examples of the painter’s works. In 1948, the artist turned his attention to a new medium, ceramics. For a time, he explored and reinterpreted the work of great masters such as Manet’s «Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe» and Delacroix’s «Les Femmes d’Alger». He was able to easily pass from one style to another, from an iconography to another, from one technique to another, always conscious about his subject and the mood of the moment.