What are your feelings regarding Picasso?

Answer 1

He was a phony! Yes he was a terrific drawer and a masterful self-promoter but he claimed to be a great innovator when .in fact, he used to steal his 'ideas' from other artists who weren't such great blow-hards. Here is the truth of all I say...Picasso on Picasso in his own words...
From the moment that art ceases to be food that feeds the best minds, the artist can use his talents to perform all the tricks of the intellectual charlatan. Most people can today no longer expect to receive consolation and exaltation from art. The 'refined,' the rich, the professional 'do-nothings', the distillers of quintessence desire only the peculiar, the sensational, the eccentric, the scandalous in today's art. I myself, since the advent of Cubism, have fed these fellows what they wanted and satisfied these critics with all the ridiculous ideas that have passed through my mind. The less they understood them, the more they admired me. Through amusing myself with all these absurd farces, I became celebrated, and very rapidly. For a painter, celebrity means sales and consequent affluence. Today, as you know, I am celebrated, I am rich. But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown - a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest. (Pablo Picasso, 1952)


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Answer 2

Picasso was a Communist. That might explain a few things.

Back in the 1930's, there was an Italian Communist named Antonio Gramsci. He was imprisoned by Mussolini. While in prison, he began to write. He idea was the best way to bring about Communism was not through military action, or overthrowing the government. It was through what he described as "The long march through the institutions". What he meant was, institutions such as the schools, the unions, the arts, and even the church were to be infiltrated. The traditional values, standards, views and positions of these institutions were to be undermined.

If you want to see an example of this, just compare the music from before about 1950 to what you hear today. Look at some of the art that was produced years ago. And then look at the garbage that passes for "Modern Art".

Compare a pre-1950 movie with one from today. Not only the language, the gratuitous violence, and the subject matter, notice how the pre-1950 movie had a positive ending.

The reason Picasso was promoted as a great artist, is precisely because he worked to undermine art. He was one of the leaders in the assault on our culture.

Answer 3

That Picasso was a Commie is one of the stupidest myths ever concocted by the far right. In fact, he was just the opposite. He loved money and held on to every penny he ever made. And in his later period, after he had already become world renowned he painted a lot of crap, repeating himself many times over, laughing all the way to the bank because he knew anything he did would sell for a great deal of money. He was a great manipulator of the public, the press, women and anyone who was willing to part with their money to buy his paintings. That he at one time pretended to be a socialist is of little political value because he did so only to get paid commissions from the Communist party.

As to what I think of his art: He was a genius, a great innovator early own in his painting career. Then, by the late 1930s, after he had become widely known, he pretty much sold out for the money and very little of what he did after this time lived up to the unique creative voice of his more unique works.

Answer 4

When I was a kid I thought he was a con artist or a practical joker, but after I took an art history class in college I gained a new perspective on his art. I now appreciate his work, even if he's still not my favorite. After the invention of photography, realistic painting as a means of recording images became obsolete. As a result, painting became more expressive and "non-representational". Personally, I love the abstract stuff. It's like a puzzle and makes you think.

Answer 5

I think that him and Cezanne were the 2 artist that start the way to the art as we know it today . They opened people minds to new ways of to look an artwork . In the XX century makes no sense to do landscapes ...that what photos are for ...
The goal of many artist today is create art ... objects , things that can't be found in our "real" live , to interpret feelings , states of mind on a canvas ... and Picasso opened that door

Answer 6

Fantastic business man , needless to say a innovative & talented artist , who opened new door's to the artworld . His treatment of women in his life , if true , are as disgusting as Diego Rivera .They are also two of many of my favorite Communists & obviously were well supported by the party , unlike any an artist would get here in Capitalisn USA . We don't even support art program's for our youth here . I share the same fear of doctors he did & he was quoted as saying his only visit to a hospital would be to die & that is a fact that came to be ! tp. mulin popclt.com

Answer 7

It's great!
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Answer 8

I don't like his cubist stuff, but he had talent and a long term career of celebrity status. An artist has to admire that in another artist. and he had skill.

Answer 9

Wish I owned a few of his paintings! I would sell them.

Answer 10

Can take him or leave him, doesn't matter, I don't go for abstract or cubism