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>> go look at how solid Picasso's pre-Cubist stuff was, for instance > “It took me four years to paint like Raphael,” he famously explained, “but a lifetime to

• pvaldes 5y ago
  You can paint like a child, as long as you has the network of social relationships that Picasso had. Artists provide often a connection between the rigid wealthy class and the low classes seen as more free to experiment. We can see it in Picasso, but also in Warhol or Bacon, for example. Context is everything, and in that context drugs, sex or friendship play a big part, so is not just as simple as paint anything and sell if for an obscene amount of money. Today videogames and internet provide similar experiences of living a second life and hanging up with interesting people so making the same impact as Picasso as a new artist would be much more difficult.
• egypturnash 5y ago
  “Drawing like a kid” is it’s own special part of the craft. You have to deliberately step back from a lot of the skills you’ve learnt about what makes a “good drawing”, and yet since you usually have a reason to make a drawing that looks like a kid’s work, you still have to keep in mind all the skills that apply even if your rendering and anatomy is deliberately lacking and broken. You can’t even just draw a stick figure because after a serious education your stick figures are bursting with life and anatomy. So you look at a bunch of kid’s drawings, recall a few of your own special kid-art quirks, and you make sure the composition is crystal clear, maybe add a few labels in a childish scrawl or a neat parental addition...