Picasso: No. 1 With a Palette

Being an art novice I never really appreciated Picasso. I never really understood him or "got him." It wasn't until I went to the Picasso museum in Paris that I had an ephiphany about him. I looked at his paintings when he was a young man - they were quite like everyone else's I suppose - portraits and what not. But then I followed his earliest works when he was 19 through his mid-20s and 30s and then his 40s and 50 and middle age and so on and I got his visionary part. It was like 2-dimensional wasn't good enough for him to express himself so he went 3-D with Cubism. Picasso is great not so much for his actual art - although I'm sure it is fantastic - but because of his revolutionary thinking. It's like why do people still talk about Shakespeare 400 years after his death. He ripped off plenty of plot lines from his contemporaries oh but the way he did it - actually making up words because the English language didn't fit what he wanted to say. That's legend in the making. We're fasincated not by the first, or even by the best but by the genre-busting, anyone who could rise above the din in this world where everyone wants to be like everyone else gets a vote for longevity in my book.

Since inception in Spain in the late 800's, passing through the "Demoiselles d'Avignon", the blue and rose period, the analytical and synthetic cubism, "Guernica", (In times of war such as these can only contorcere the bowels a as masterpiece "Guernica", a spectral and disturbing, without unctuous rhetoric, in his monumental canvas over seven meters, as the flag symbol of the horrors of all conflicts.) the metamorphosis plastics and suggestions Mediterranean :Picasso remains the largest painting of genes de nine hundred ...
Stefano Rollero, artist,Turin.
http://www.artmajeur.com/catanquader

Since inception in Spain in the late 800's, passing through the "Demoiselles d'Avignon", the blue and rose period, the analytical and synthetic cubism, "Guernica", (In times of war such as these can only contorcere the bowels a as masterpiece "Guernica", a spectral and disturbing, without unctuous rhetoric, in his monumental canvas over seven meters, as the flag symbol of the horrors of all conflicts.) the metamorphosis plastics and suggestions Mediterranean :Picasso remains the largest painting of genes de nine hundred ...
stefano rollero, artist, Turin.
http://www.artmajeur.com/catanquader

Since inception in Spain in the late 800's, passing through the "Demoiselles d'Avignon", the blue and rose period, the analytical and synthetic cubism, "Guernica", (In times of war such as these can only contorcere the bowels a as masterpiece "Guernica", a spectral and disturbing, without unctuous rhetoric, in his monumental canvas over seven meters, as the flag symbol of the horrors of all conflicts.) the metamorphosis plastics and suggestions Mediterranean : Picasso remains the largest painting of genes de nine hundred ...
Stefano Rollero, artist, Turin.
http://www.artmajeur.com/catanquader

Way back when Peter Plagens was a regular in Art in America, he wrote for the gallery mob in L.A. about as well as anyone ever has. Now he has apparently devolved into an adult education instructor for hypothethetical hoodoos "who think Picasso couldn't "really" draw." Peter! You're wasted at this low-brow venue! Come home! We miss you at USC!

Jacob Freeze

A lover, the faith, a graceful desire.

There???s a gracious
desire where
the light of a lamp,
with a good grace,
presents in a moment
the care of a
beautiful sunset,
and also that dream,
in a delicate candle,
remembers at once
a luminous lover.

Francesco Sinibaldi

I am an artist. I agree with your first comment. Picasso was indeed
a great artist, and I agree with your last statement, "we don't know what is". Picasso was a thief. He was talented, but he had no voice. So,
he would steal from everyone. The quantity of output is better suited to a factory, and has no bearing whatsoever on the quality of art. I have looked at his lines. They are wonderful. Some of his art is not so. I must apologize if I seem offensive, but you will never know the feeling that occurs when you create an actual work of art, and until you understand him, you should just look at the lines of Picasso. A thief can also be a great talent. Your article should not have been about his colors, which were not all that impressive, but about his lines, which were.