Artist Pablo Picasso's critical success from his youth in Barcelona and arching through successive years leading up to World War II and after is noted by how he had fallen in an out of favor with art critics and reviewers. Matthew Kangas reflects on the recent Picasso exhibition and retrospective "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris" (October 8, 2010 - January 17, 2011) at the Seattle Art Museum and considers the politics and perspectives of the artist's critical press. Read more in this month's essay Vertical Invader: Picasso and the Critics.