[benpbenp]

Except for the "realism in the depiction of human figures" bit.

[fsloth]

Picasso was a virtuoso artist from child: http://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/period-first.php

His later experiments with style were not an artifact of lack of talent, but conscious artistic experimentation.

Sadly, modern artists try often to skip the mastering the basics and just start to splat color on canvas.

[iamben]

Early / pre Blue Period Picasso was pretty real, iirc. The guy was very talented.