Ever since last December, people have been entertaining themselves by participating in an open community project called “Take a photo of the Rembrandt type”. The project’s feed on Vk.com already has more than 300 submissions, featuring people’s best attempts at replicating famous works of Classic

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If you look at this collection of Pablo Picasso’s portraits, and compare the first piece to the last, you’ll find that the two are strikingly different. But if you then compare Picasso’s work from the time he was a young man until the time of his death, some common thread emerges: you can tell the