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Not only that, but the specialness is totally in the eye of the beholder - one man's trash is another man's fine art. And if told that trash was painted by a ce
by svantana 11y ago
Not only that, but the specialness is totally in the eye of the beholder - one man's trash is another man's fine art. And if told that trash was painted by a certain Mr Picasso, perceptions might change rather quickly. There's a reason the scientific method is so important -- it's the best way we know not to fool ourselves all the time.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoPicasso didn't produce trash because he couldn't paint. He could paint and draw incredibly well. But he got very bored by painting incredibly well before he hit 20. Everything after that was one attempt after another to invent new visual languages for painting. The cultural value of those attempts is completely different to the resale auction value of a Picasso, which is driven entirely by market speculation and the fact that highly rated artworks are treated as a convenient store of value - rather like gold, but more compact and lighter. Cultural value is probably best measured by influence. On that basis Picasso scores very high, as one of the creators of abstracted figurative art. That trope remains mysterious to people who believe painting should be about photo-accurate or easy-to-read figurative work, but it's been a huge driver of fine art and all kinds of commercial illustration.