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tacocat  ·  2749 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Picasso's Bull: A Master Class in Abstraction

He was a fantastic naturalistic artist from a young age which most people don't know. But the post impressionists started a dialog between western and eastern art which threw a lot of Western art tradition out the window. It led to appreciation of all sorts of art like primitive art.

I have an art degree so it's frustrating when people see a Picasso and think that doesn't look like the thing. But it's like having a degree in post modern literature and being mad at people for reading Dan Brown instead of Thomas Pynchon. But I frame art for a living and people have seriously bad taste so that's hard to keep in mind