Picasso's Genius Revealed: He Used Common House Paint

livescience ^ | 08 February 2013 Time: 10:43 AM ET | Clara Moskowitz

[riverrunner]

The question remais did he use it because that is what he had or for other reasons.

[tallyhoe]

I don’t like his paintings!!!

[BenLurkin]

Necessity is the mother of invention!

[buffaloguy]

I am not a Picasso fan.

[Past Your Eyes]

[max americana]

“I don’t like his paintings!!!

Me neither. When I was in Europe, I preferred Dali’s, especially up close.

[jobim]

One of the 20th Century’s grand architects of moral anarchy.

[FrdmLvr]

I do like cubism.

[layman]

My nine year old granddaughter brings a lot of her art work home from school that look like Picasso ‘masterpieces’. I hope she outgrows it.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I like his paintings I just can’t afford them. Sooooooo I just take out my house paint, canvas board and brush and copy the ones I like then frame them and hang them. I love it when people walk in and say “Is that a Picasso?” :-)

[USMCPOP]

I think Picasso painted the porch of my first house. It was built about in the 1930s. In fact, I think he built the porch itself. It was sort of crooked in that style of his.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Beginning in the 1930’s many artists began experimenting with synthetic paint, including household paint. When Jackson Pollock employed his “drip” technique in the 1950’s he used a mixed media of traditional oil paint, house paint and sometimes an acrylic. Since the 1970’s a number of his most valuable works have required extensive restoration because much of the paints he used deteriorate in a short time.

[RedMDer]

Freepers, your Contributions make every difference!
Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!

[Jeff Winston]

He was a true jeenyus.

[miss marmelstein]

Oddly enough, Leonardo had the same problems!

[FamiliarFace]

I don’t mind Picasso, but I love Dali!

[max americana]

We were on a Euro trip 4 years ago, when in Spain, we went to his home. It’s close to the beach and they served us wine, bread and cheese while everyone walked on the estate.

[ottbmare]

Picasso was a fraud, and he admitted it with great bitterness.

[notted]

Picasso’s work spans an incredible range of styles and complex construction. look up the images he produced as a teenager and in his twenties, start from there and watch a progression of unparalleled talent, most of us who are poor in aptitude wish we could possess a mere fraction of his vision, even though many of his works were uneven and even monstrous, some are incredible inventions of extraordinary insight and beauty.

I believe you will find more than a handful of examples you will enjoy.

Remember its only art.

“Art is long, life is short.”