Pablo Picasso

Why look at a face from one side when you can shatter it into a thousand geometric truths? He was the great iconoclast, viewing the history of art as a trophy room to be raided. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction," he noted, tearing apart the perspective of the past to make room for the jagged 20th century. He is the minotaur in the labyrinth of the canvas, shifting from blue depression to the monochrome scream of Guernica. He didn't just change style; he changed the way human eyes process the world. He is the infinite experiment.