[78-L] Subject: Everyone Their Own Picasso ^, (was Marsalis makes the

[David Lennick]

It's not online yet, but check out the "Baby Blues" strip on Sunday the 27th. 
(Toronto Star prints the Sunday comics on Saturday because they're idiots.)

dl

Margaret Still wrote:
>>>> I've always thought the way people 'box up' art into a limited thing was
> bizarre. 
> ?
> Further, is an adult artist prohibited from working with themes/motifs/ideas
> which children have interest in or also work in? Is art still governed by
> the laws of outside 'legislators' at this late point in human history?
> 
> ?
> Gene
> ==============
> I don't post often, but read this list, and just had to comment on this
> discussion. I drew all the time as a child, and went on to get a
> professional studio art degree. What Picasso does is very much what a child
> does. For instance, a child might draw eyes frontally on a 3/4 or profile
> head, and Picasso might do the same, for the same reasons. The child and
> Picasso are representing "eye-ness" or the experience of looking at eyes,
> drawn in a direct and joyful manner. Rendering in perspective can give an
> illusion of an object sitting in space, but art isn't received from the
> eyeball alone. A difference between Picasso and the child is that Picasso
> can render in perspective, and when it suits his purpose, he renders
> exquisitely. The child can't do that as well. A funny story about Picasso in
> his late years is that he used to visit art classes with batty old lady
> students, in order to steal what the ladies were doing that was good either
> through accident or through a natural but uneven talent. I'm sure he stole
> from children, too!
> 
> It's really too bad that people are so insecure in their own responses to
> art. That's why the Oprahs and other "legislators" have the power to deem
> what is "great".
> 
> Merry Christmas and H.H. to all, and I promise the next time I post, it will
> be on-topic.
> 
> But for now, here's the all-time worst Christmas song (I put it on YouTube):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CxE_LMz3og
> 
> 
> Best,
> Margaret G. Still
> 
> 
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