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Imagine you're just fucking around with something because you're bored and then leave it there and forget about it and 2000 years later archaeologists find it a

Imagine you're just fucking around with something because you're bored and then leave it there and forget about it and 2000 years later archaeologists find it and wonder "how odd, I wonder what the deep significance of this might be"

SlightlyLeftPad 2y ago
I felt this was potentially true with Picasso’s work. It was considered groundbreaking and is currently revered. When actually the faces he painted were really mimicking the phenomenon of staring into someone else’s eyes too closely, like when your forehead’s touch. The eyes tend to merge into one or appear displaced. It’s a Simple thing that nobody seemed to have done before.
- bcraven 2y ago
  My understanding was that it was generally agreed to be related to concurrent mathematical breakthroughs in higher-dimensional space: _"Picasso was particularly struck by Poincaré's advice on how to view the fourth dimension, which artists considered another spatial dimension. If you could transport yourself into it, you would see every perspective of a scene at once. But how to project these perspectives on to canvas? Poincaré's suggestion in Science and Hypothesis was to do so one at a time, showing each in succession. Picasso disagreed. He wanted to depict them all at once."_ https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jul/17/henri-poincare-einstein-picasso https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jul/17/henri-p...
  - konschubert 2y ago
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  - evoke4908 2y ago
    That's an extremely fascinating angle I've never seen before. Thanks!
- bitwize 2y ago
  Picasso was deliberately playing with perspective. One theory goes that he was doing a pisstake of classical artists faking perspective by painting half the face from the front and half the face from the side. Another says that he was attempting to capture more of an object than an accurate rendering from a single perspective could convey, sort of a painter's equivalent of those animated GIFs that show an object from different camera angles, yielding a 3D effect.
- lmm 2y ago
  I gained a lot of respect for Picasso when I saw the works of others in the movement. You can walk into a room full of notionally similar paintings and immediately pick out the Picasso because it looks better than the others. I still don't particularly like his work, but he was evidently doing something that's harder than it looks.

SlightlyLeftPad 2y ago

I felt this was potentially true with Picasso’s work. It was considered groundbreaking and is currently revered. When actually the faces he painted were really mimicking the phenomenon of staring into someone else’s eyes too closely, like when your forehead’s touch. The eyes tend to merge into one or appear displaced. It’s a Simple thing that nobody seemed to have done before.

bcraven 2y ago
My understanding was that it was generally agreed to be related to concurrent mathematical breakthroughs in higher-dimensional space: _"Picasso was particularly struck by Poincaré's advice on how to view the fourth dimension, which artists considered another spatial dimension. If you could transport yourself into it, you would see every perspective of a scene at once. But how to project these perspectives on to canvas? Poincaré's suggestion in Science and Hypothesis was to do so one at a time, showing each in succession. Picasso disagreed. He wanted to depict them all at once."_ https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jul/17/henri-poincare-einstein-picasso https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jul/17/henri-p...
- konschubert 2y ago
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- evoke4908 2y ago
  That's an extremely fascinating angle I've never seen before. Thanks!
bitwize 2y ago
Picasso was deliberately playing with perspective. One theory goes that he was doing a pisstake of classical artists faking perspective by painting half the face from the front and half the face from the side. Another says that he was attempting to capture more of an object than an accurate rendering from a single perspective could convey, sort of a painter's equivalent of those animated GIFs that show an object from different camera angles, yielding a 3D effect.
lmm 2y ago
I gained a lot of respect for Picasso when I saw the works of others in the movement. You can walk into a room full of notionally similar paintings and immediately pick out the Picasso because it looks better than the others. I still don't particularly like his work, but he was evidently doing something that's harder than it looks.