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Picasso's development into a mature artist began with an academic education; but by the time he was 16 he had already learned everything there was to learn. When he turned to contemporary Spanish art, he did so with the ambition, as he wrote in a letter, of being more modernist than the Modernists themselves. And he achieved his aim. Only Paris could offerany challenge during his years of training, and ittook him less than a year to acquaint himself thoroughly with the latest artistic techniques.

Representational art, devoted to portraiture and to narrative subject matter, has been a prime element in the Western artistic tradition. Because the art of classical Greece is one of the sources from which Western art derives, and because it contained so much that was echoed in later centuries, it is difficult to appreciate Greek art for what it once was—a novel creation, and totally at variance with the artistic traditions of other early cultures.

4. Ireland's Artistic Heritage The museum group mentioned above as Item 2 of the Sifted Sights of Dublin contains enough inherited wealth of artistic genius to keep the student of Gaelic arts fascinated for weeks on end. Those interested in the paintings of the past, representing many schools and eras, will find in the National Gallery of Ireland one of the best of Europe's smaller art museums.