"Everywhere, all the time, a barrage of scrambled images assaults us -- disjointed scenes, outlandish mergers. ... But by now we have little trouble reading or understanding this new visual lingo. ... We have already had our homework done for us by Picasso." —
Life, "The Power of Picasso," Dec. 27 1968
One hundred years earlier, a proto-Picasso debuted in
Punch (1860).