Posted on 05/30/2002 6:03:51 PM PDT by dighton
And while we're at it, Leonard Bernstein was a hack, Isadora Duncan was a wacked-out skank, and Andy Warhol should have spent his fifteen minutes in a dumpster. Don't get me started on Truman Captoe or Gore Vidal.
And I don't like Mondrian, or Picasso, or Robert Indiana, whose sculptures are LETTERS, for heaven's sake!
The modern art world is an exercise in marketing, nothing more.
Actually, he made himself an industry, and in many ways, you can't blame him. He took the gullible and celebrity-worshipping reviewers and turned their pockets inside out.
Picasso was, in many ways, the ultimate artist's revenge. Forget artistic integrity. He found a product that sold, kept on producing it, and lived very nicely off it, thank you. (I think he once boasted that he could even sell his sh*t, although I don't think he tried it.)
Well some people try to pick up girls
And get called a-holes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare and
So Pablo Picasso was never called an a-hole
Well the girls would turn the color
Of the avacado when he would drive
Down their street in his El Dorado
He could walk down you street
And girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso never got called an a-hole
Not like you
Alright
Well he was only 5'3"
But girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso never got called an a-hole
Not in New York
Oh well be not schmuck, be not abnoxious,
Be not bellbottom bummer or a-hole
Remember the story of Pablo Picasso
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso was never called an a-hole
Alright this is it
Some people try to pick up girls
And they get called an a-hole
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist his stare and so
Pablo Picasso was never called...
His earlier works were magnificent. This is The Tragedy, 1903.
Le Gourmet, 1901.
Boulevard de Clichy, 1901.
I agree about Picasso, but like Van Gogh alot. There is other modern(e) art that I admire also, the EMD E-8 locomotive, designed in the 1930's plus many appliances and furniture from the 1950's.
Funny how the elite likes to pretend certain things are so great. A way of pretending superiority.
,,, I'd agree with that. Usually there's a progression in style and capability. Picasso's regression was a paradox fuelled by the art mafia.
Both are all about perception rather than substance. In both, the medium defines the message, the package defines -- or obsoletes -- the content.
How many doctrinaire conservatives do you know? What use is "art" made of feces?
Andy Warhol was too busy making silkscreens of it.
I agree about Picasso,.... There is other modern(e) art that I admire also, the EMD E-8 locomotive,....
Picasso, while "exiled" in Sweden during WWII, did a sculpture of the wing of the British fighter plane, the Spitfire, as :"A symbol of Europes determination for Liberation". I have seen a picture of the sculpture, and well, it is Picasso. But like you admire the EMD E-8, I admire the Spit on purely artistic grounds. IMHO, it is the most beautiful airplane ever designed by man (R.J.Mitchell, actually). Pablo may have been touched by an a-hole, but he had an eye for women and airplanes.
Right! When it comes to elites and art, it is truely a case of the emperor's new clothes.
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