Picasso played a key role in the imaginary and the ideological configuration of “new art,” that is, the renewal of art in Spain. Beyond the concepts of “influence” and “imitation,” there was a “Picasso dissemination” which framed the artist as a sign with which the present could be modified and a transformative historical awareness-raising could be undertaken. In the early 1920’s, in the midst of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, in the glow of Picasso, working in favor of the “new art” meant working “politically” towards the permanent change of a complex, diverse country which until then had been enveloped in the phantasms of anachronism and backwardness. Picasso himself, at the helm, was part of this powerful “regenerationist” vector and resumed positions that he himself had promoted many years earlier, in 1901, with the creation of the magazine Arte Joven.