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

[David Lennick]

Okay, art experts..here ya go.

http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/comic.asp?feature_id=Baby_Blues

> Margaret Still wrote:
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>> 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
>>