One of his girlfriends commited suicide. I wonder why. Also he left one woman Dora after nine years unexpectedly for another woman. Dora said all his paintings of her were lies. His ex wife Francoise gilot had to leave because he was very abusive. He tried to ruin her career after she left him. She was an artist as well and had painted since five years old and was highly educated. She painted till the day she died at 101 just recently. She is an accomplisged painter yet she was blacklisted at the time for leaving picasso. She wrote a book years after she left him depicting her time with him. He was not a good person.
If anyone is pulled toward the intersection of diffrent art forms, for example literature and painting, there is a marvelous short story by the masterful Ray Bradbuty, titled “In a Season of Calm Weather” from the collection A Medicine for Melanchoy. In the story, an American tourist visiting the French Riviera chances upon an old man drawing in the wet sand with a stick from an ice cream bar. At first amused, as he approaches him and sees the fantastic, intricate forms the man is making in the sand, he is entranced, then shocked when he takes a good look at the old man; it is Picasso, his idol, his reason for living in fact. He wonders how he could possibly preserve the spontaneous piece of art. A plaster cast? Digging it up very carefully? A photograph? Alas, he doesn't have his camera on him. The man smiles at him, seeming to understand his desire, his agony in knowing that the drawing will not endure. They both are momentarily distracted by the beauty of the setting sun. Then Picasso says good evening and departs. The American stands wistfully for a while longer. Later that night, with his wife, he hears the sound of the ocean. and is at once melancholic and accepting and sad. His wife asks him what's wrong. He replies, "Nothing, just the tide. Just the tide coming in."
You forgot: possibly the biggest troll in history. I'm convinced in his later years he thought to himself "I could literally shit onto a canvas" and it would be "genius!"
Connecting the dots between African art and Picasso's Demoiselles and cubist work is a huge Ah-ha! for me. How could I not have seen this earlier? The influence is so very clear. Understandable that he did not want to cop to this and undermine his mythological identity as an Original. Which he was anyway in western art and culture. Thanks for including John Berger, an undervalued beloved in my book. Excellent doc and narration. Thank You!
Thousands of books written that point out the fact that modern art was hugely influenced by tribal art. Modern art is based on the ocult and mysticism. IE Satan.
I was taught that in art school in Puerto Rico, I never knew that he denied it. When you see those African sculptures with a modern art perspective, you can see how advanced they were. Some Central American indigenous art too. And they’re made by anonymous artists… Picasso was a great artist, but his ego was too big
Me too! I was just thinking about that exhibition yesterday. I haven't been back to see the actual MOMA, but it was cool to see that "conversation" between Picasso and Matisse and their works placed side by side. Very memorable!
My local Mausoleum of Fine Art has a good Picasso, and a bad Picasso. A great Picasso exhibit there about 10 years ago, however, was uniformly beautiful.
So many angles on Picasso in this one short video. I learned a lot. Appreciate that you chose to end it by talking about his abusive relationships. No amount of genius can excuse the way he treated people
Great video! I loved it. I think it’s better to say “girls” rather than “women” when you’re talking about the people Picasso was preying on, since they were in fact, young teenage girls. 🤢
Unfair generalisation. Only Marie Therese was under 20 when they met. Like the others (perhaps half a dozen over half a century) they would become his muse and transform his art.
Upon visiting Reina Sofia in Madrid I was taken aback at how his work seemed so disjointed. Although carefully arranged by period, it did not seem as a gradual shift but rather jolting transitions, seismic leaps in style and approach, likened to the sea during a maelstrom where the turgid water threatens to engulf the shore. One espies the earlier influences of Purvis de Chavannes and later Picasso's coconspirator George Braque. But then he bursted the constraints of cubism in Les Demoiselle d'Avignon. Nah, forget the labels. Upon looking at this retrospective of Picasso, one sees complexity straight on as tangled vines lost in a labyrinth where one no longer finds his or her way around.
Picasso’s goal was to culminate his talents into his own immutable style. He gave permission for high level personal style. Personal Expression over technique.
I doubt it. The dude would use his fame as a form of payment. He’d go to the grocer with no money & instead of paying, he’d jot down a quick sketch because it was an “original Picasso” & more valuable than the items he wanted. He wasn’t interested in personal expression, he was only interested in HIS own personal expression. He didn’t care about art, he only cared about Picasso & how far he could push his fame & convincing people he mattered more than he actually did
@@koobs4549 You're 100 % Wrong. I merely stated his impact on the world of Art. Those things are real and are indelible. You can't imagine Modern Art without Picasso. It's like trying to imagine EDDIE VAN HALEN out of Rock Music. He may have been a jerk. You may be a Marxist professor working in Yale's art department. History will remember things accordingly.
He's the myth of the power of curiosity for the unknown ... Anything with unknown qualities gets mythologised to gigantic proportions ..... For example, fear of the unknown afterlife creates religious beliefs and cultures ...... unproven rumored creatures like Nessie creates such curiosity it spawns a tourist industry ...... unsolved serial murderers acquires a legacy of conspiracy theorist books and movies made after them ..... Picasso intentionally included random elements and disregarded proportions and perspective to confound the art critics who dare not criticise his art for looking childish but instead convince themselves there might be something meaningful beneath the seemingly random paintings ... Warhol did that too, simply creating an impression of mystery and unknown qualities to arouse curiosity and off they went to the bank !
You truely missed out watching this video ! It explained, shared great info I didn't know prior, n partially glorified him n his genius, even when he was warped....a true master of his art n world's !!!❤
In Malaga Spain I saw the film where he painted on glass, it was then washed and another black and white painting began. It was genius to me. It was mesmerizing.
no mention of Georges Braque who probably invented cubism and collage. His father was a qualified house painter . in those days they learned how to imitate woodgrain and marbled surfaces etc. Techniques that Braque would incorporate in his art and Picasso could copy.
It's an unfortunate omission. My original script was 8,000 words. The video isn't really about cubism so I ended up cutting a lot things including that Picasso and Braque's paintings looked nearly identical for a time. I also wanted to talk about Guernica, World War II, and fascism...
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Collage is about as old as paper and glue, the urge to credit it's invention to some Great Artist is younger than the technique itself. (For one neat historical example: Mary Delany used collage for botanical illustrations in the 1700s.)
14:27 - 14:45 YES YES! This articulates it perfectly. I had always thought of art being magic, but never found a real way to define it. But this! This! It's perfect.
No, not what art is at all. It's two utilitarian objects that both function exactly the same... so which one do you choose? The one that looks more elegant to you. The one that might evoke a certain feeling. The one who's colors might put you in a certain mood. Now take two objects that have no utility at all, and apply the same rules. Which one would you want to hang on your wall and wake up to every morning. At least that's my definition. It has to be something I want to keep looking at. And that makes me feel something. Something that has emotional tones that are incredibly unique. Music is similar in that regard.
Pablo wouldn't know what "Divine or Sacred" creations are if his life depended on it.💀He is as guilty of steeling from the indigenous as much as the colonialist rapists who built the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro,
He also nursed a terminal girlfriend with cancer to death! It's trendy to call him mysoginist and forget how fabulous a painter he was! I notice nobody knocks Georgia O Keefe for living alone in the desert relinquishing relationships so she can concentrate on her artwork! They'll never forgive Picasso for being a workaholic something admirable in others who strive for excellence! How much is jealousy envy and desire to be as famous as him! Plus he's first to admit Velasquez was probably the greatest of all time and he couldn't paint like him until his 70's and his exhibition in UNSW art gallery was absolutely brilliant and overwhelming!
Sorry but disapproval of his abusive attitude does not makes us jealous. I'd disapprove of such attitude in ANY person. His style has a place in art history, but as a person he is not likeable, and don't ask us to be enablers. Just because someone is successful at something that does not excuse him being and a****.
I see Picasso as the greatest gaslighting scam of his time. His works are grotesque, admired by those who like to pretend they “understand” some deep inner meanings, but in actuality are as gullible as the people who fall for pyramid schemes. I don’t begrudge Picasso the enormous wealth and fame he got from tricking people into and “emperor’s new clothes” type of grift. It must be human nature to rob those who beg to be robbed.
@@docinparadise - It's the countless modern "conceptual" artists who came after Picasso who are the true gaslighters. Picasso had a full range of skills and did traditional works of great beauty, but also experimented endlessly with form, creating what was "grotesque" to the casual observer. Sure, much of it appears strange and ugly, but look at the totality of his work.
@@jlovebirchi dont find his work great and also dont find it strange or ugly enough to be good. Its creative and has some skill, but its doesnt come further than creative experiments and illustration. It doesnt have charm or depth
@@BakkerSamuel Art (and the perception of greatness) is a subjective experience. With Picasso, he mastered every style and kept moving forward and exploring. There's something for everyone in his vast mountain of work, some of which has great charm and depth. See the video "Why Did Picasso's Style Transform So Drastically?" for a well-researched overview.
Shows that people will believe anything if it's pushed hard enough , so the art world found a way to make more money.Picasso understood that there in lies his genius!Now everyone and anyone can call themselves an artist.He didn't have to compete with the greats and he was laughing all the way to the bank followed by one desperate penniless model after another.
Really? Like you hate all of it? I find this hard to believe, have you seen how much his style changed over time? I can understand if you don’t like the style he is most famous for but even his earlier work looks like some of the masters. It’s not like he’s Jackson Pollock & only painted in a single technique
@@richiejohnson you think you’ve made a really profound point here but it doesn’t say anything about me other than that fact that I hate the art of Picasso …..and if you’ve looked at my comment I have already made that perfectly clear and I’m within my own rights to feel that way.
He would love your response. It seems sometimes impossible to engender or reach any passion in the audience, as an artist (musician, dancer, actor etc..).
The Mystery of Picasso, the movie, is like an edge of your seat action movie for artists. The changes he makes are scary as he keeps ruining perfect composition to make another and another, matador style action - it will get artists to freak out.
Agree. The last part with Picasso painting a huge wall mural timelapsed over a few days is a roller-coaster ride. My take was paintings or images he did previously was used in the mural as a component, a letter or word in the larger composition. So, similiar to writing a rough draft erasing, crossing out a section Picasso would ad hoc create a painting putting down a pre-formed image then painting over or scraping it off the ground as he improvised it.
Stands testament of the greatness of his art that it continues to provoke controversy a century later. Count yourself lucky if it gets under the skin .
What a trove of documentary film that I have never seen before of this master of art. I am surprised at the churlish tone of so many comments here. Can there really be any controversy that he was the primary mover of modern art?
This man took up the eradication of love from his heart and mind...and accomplished its avoidance as a misanthropic 'champion' in the lurid Pantheon men have made of such "gods". Despite his canonization by those envious of his temporal success, I doubt he has maintained any affection for the cult he so assiduously practiced at one time.
After his teenage years his painting was abismal and he knew it but didn't care. He was more interested in selling paintings with minimal effort. A pure materialist with an unclean soul.
Well if you think about it, on the pure business side its a pretty efficient model, and on the personal art creation side, you can do whatever the hell you want, so he is winning on both sides 🤔
He discovered his own unique style. And left an important mark in art history, regardless of that that he was being abusive. It would be very boring if he just kept painting realism.
Lovely video, just one nitpicky note: 18:55 The Dutch name "Piet" sounds like the English name "Pete". A lot of people might claim otherwise, but none of them will be Dutch. Fijne dag!
14:11 'He said this (regarding African art and masks) after visiting the Trocadero Museum "To examine these masks; all those magical objects people had created with a magical purpose, to serve as intermediaries to them and the hostile forces that surrounded them, thereby trying to overcome their fears, leaving them color and shape and then I understood what painting really meant. it is not an aesthetic process. It is a form of magic that stands between us and a hostile universe. A means of taking power. Imposing a form on our terrors as well as our wishes. The day I understood that, the day I found my way. "'
Nah, Picasso paintings were just like the "the Emperor's New Clothes". Art sellers marketed his work because he could make 100+ paintings in a month while traditional painters sometimes didn't complete 1 in that time. Art houses wanted to make more money, so they convinced everyone Picasso was the 'hot new thing' and his confidence as a narcissist helped to sell it. These days people are finally seeing through the BS that was the tasteless scribbles of this art period and Picasso's work is LOSING value. The paintings at auction are quietly being sold for less than ever before. Meanwhile masters like Bougerou who lost some popularity after his death and the rise of abstract art like Picasso, are now proudly displayed in galleries again and selling for record highs. THIS man painted with such skill and heart, he had a sound work ethic, he had integrity, and he supported and taught female artists in a time no one else would. The modernists were simply in rebellion against the skill and control the old masters, their literal former teachers including William Bougerou, had. Being original just to be different is both immature and adds no value to society. And to assume new is always better is just the arrogance of the young.
I was wondering how far down the comments section I would have to go before I would find the first rational response to this video. Thank you for your post. You will probably get a kick out of this analysis of Picasso ruclips.net/video/cOQhVMxzCqs/видео.htmlsi=WH8M6G7Ir1uuR9zb
Art market is still selling a lot and making a lot of profit. It is about capital. Nobody cares what kind of a bastard the artist is. It depends on the times what sells best. Actually the modernists were rebelling against class division not just traditional painting techniques. They hated the polished finished academic paintings which allowed portrayal only of rich people or mythological beings. Those polished academic paintings were serving like a beauty filter for the rich. To idolize them. And only the rich could afford them of course. Modernists challenged that. They wanted to paint everyday people, not just the rich or mythological beings. So you are discrediting them here. Their work was valuable in its own ways. Take pointillism for example. They discovered optical mixing of color. Today, scientists know that our visual system in our brains has the ability to mix color like that. Modern artist discover that, not the traditional ones. Because they dared to paint differently and break off with tradition. They didn't tried to be different just for the sake of being different like you claim.
Can we start talking about the artists that are alive more please, I know one should know history but this is becoming an echo champer, of the same dead white male artists
I understand where you are coming from. 99% of western art history is dead white men. Interestingly, it was critic John Berger’s writing about Picasso’s relationship with women that led to the concept of the male gaze that became widely influential in feminist theory. Talking about Picasso provides a way to talk about the trajectory of art and culture in the 20th century like no other artist. As my channel grows, I plan on covering lesser known artists. If I were to do this now, no one would watch the videos. Plus, I teach part-time so these videos help me do that. RUclips is an imperfect platform. Art 21 has great video profiles on living artists.
Damn, I was hoping there was a conspiracy theory that he never existed, or was actually some other very staid and traditional artist who made him up. You know, The History Channel stuff. 😁
Far more than enough total crap from that moron, that petty criminal, who never learned to paint properly. Someone gave him a box camera with broken lens, that's the origin of his segmented figures, no vision, no nothing. What a charade!
I think Picasso was a bit of a one trick pony style wise, but it was nonetheless visually pleasing. He was more than his paintings though and I don’t begrudge his success. The element of promotion and knowing what to be influenced by is a huge talent in itself.
One trick pony, are you serious? Love him or hate him, his style changed considerably over the years. Not to mention all of the different mediums he used. Saying Picasso was a one trick pony is one of the most uninformed things I've heard in a long time.
@@cdronk his blue phase was nothing significant. Once he found his style he stuck with it. Nothing wrong with it, but it’s not like he reinvented himself multiple times.
10:10 People in this time were so much more dramatic in how they saw art. If Picasso had a tiktok account and posted something like that in today's age, he'd probably just get a lot of comments saying it's cringe lol
I recently found a motherload of Picasso's mostly jewelry pottery and decor a few other really random thing that scare the shit outta me.. unexplainable things.. like he chose me to own his works as many are engraved to me.. my full name. They will say like to Carl Faberge on a few.. then for.. and my name😳.. and I am afraid to show anybody because the extent of what I've found and the images that are behind the works are extremely explicit and demonic.. a statue I found dripping in gold blindly attached me to it at a thrift store like a magnet without even seeing it and when I grabbed it an unexplainable surge of ominous energy jolted through my body like I've never felt or experienced.. an unholy almost violently powerful feeling.. but what I experienced once I brought it home was unbelievable and insane, I don't even want to talk about it.. I've got 100s of pieces signed Picasso a bracelet I found has a picture of me in it.. wtf is going on?
He pilfered African art, wholesale- and shamelessly. Like Picasso himself said: "Good artists borrow, great artists steal".
One of his girlfriends commited suicide. I wonder why. Also he left one woman Dora after nine years unexpectedly for another woman. Dora said all his paintings of her were lies. His ex wife Francoise gilot had to leave because he was very abusive. He tried to ruin her career after she left him. She was an artist as well and had painted since five years old and was highly educated. She painted till the day she died at 101 just recently. She is an accomplisged painter yet she was blacklisted at the time for leaving picasso. She wrote a book years after she left him depicting her time with him. He was not a good person.
If anyone is pulled toward the intersection of diffrent art forms, for example literature and painting, there is a marvelous short story by the masterful Ray Bradbuty, titled “In a Season of Calm Weather” from the collection A Medicine for Melanchoy. In the story, an American tourist visiting the French Riviera chances upon an old man drawing in the wet sand with a stick from an ice cream bar. At first amused, as he approaches him and sees the fantastic, intricate forms the man is making in the sand, he is entranced, then shocked when he takes a good look at the old man; it is Picasso, his idol, his reason for living in fact.
He wonders how he could possibly preserve the spontaneous piece of art. A plaster cast? Digging it up very carefully? A photograph? Alas, he doesn't have his camera on him. The man smiles at him, seeming to understand his desire, his agony in knowing that the drawing will not endure. They both are momentarily distracted by the beauty of the setting sun.
Then Picasso says good evening and departs. The American stands wistfully for a while longer. Later that night, with his wife, he hears the sound of the ocean. and is at once melancholic and accepting and sad. His wife asks him what's wrong. He replies, "Nothing, just the tide. Just the tide coming in."
Ray Bradbury spent some years living in Europe, and he was around more or less the same years as Picasso....chances are this story was real.
I will find this and read it!
@@javieralvarez1072 Perhaps not true, but real nonetheless.
Pablo was one of the Great salesmen. A legend in marketing and self promotion, a truly monumental ego.
You forgot: possibly the biggest troll in history. I'm convinced in his later years he thought to himself "I could literally shit onto a canvas" and it would be "genius!"
@@Oracol he knew what he was doing his whole life. He use to paint realism at his young age. He was good
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII Yes, he was talented, as demonstrated at an early age, but I feel he was trolling hard in his latter years
Precisely
I agree with you.
Connecting the dots between African art and Picasso's Demoiselles and cubist work is a huge Ah-ha! for me. How could I not have seen this earlier?
The influence is so very clear. Understandable that he did not want to cop to this and undermine his mythological identity as an Original. Which he was anyway in western art and culture.
Thanks for including John Berger, an undervalued beloved in my book.
Excellent doc and narration. Thank You!
Thousands of books written that point out the fact that modern art was hugely influenced by tribal art. Modern art is based on the ocult and mysticism. IE Satan.
I was taught that in art school in Puerto Rico, I never knew that he denied it. When you see those African sculptures with a modern art perspective, you can see how advanced they were. Some Central American indigenous art too. And they’re made by anonymous artists… Picasso was a great artist, but his ego was too big
I'd always assumed he was influenced by African artwork. I had no idea he insisted otherwise.
African “art”
I went to the Picasso Matisse show at the MOMA when they were temporarily in Brooklyn. Very memorable. Fascinating.
Me too! I was just thinking about that exhibition yesterday. I haven't been back to see the actual MOMA, but it was cool to see that "conversation" between Picasso and Matisse and their works placed side by side. Very memorable!
My local Mausoleum of Fine Art has a good Picasso, and a bad Picasso. A great Picasso exhibit there about 10 years ago, however, was uniformly beautiful.
Françoise Gilot is still alive at 100 years old
Not any more🤷♀️
@@dpelpal that's true. She will be missed. She led an incredible life
I appreciate your very intelligent production. 🙏
So many angles on Picasso in this one short video. I learned a lot. Appreciate that you chose to end it by talking about his abusive relationships. No amount of genius can excuse the way he treated people
So true. One forms is so many others and forms within forms…and it’s true it’s never finished. Thanks for this docu
Great video! I loved it. I think it’s better to say “girls” rather than “women” when you’re talking about the people Picasso was preying on, since they were in fact, young teenage girls. 🤢
picasso was a pedophile and thats the only legacy he should have
Yep
Omg smh the unsettling feelings I felt that are looking true should have known smh him and his boi Balthums.
Unfair generalisation. Only Marie Therese was under 20 when they met. Like the others (perhaps half a dozen over half a century) they would become his muse and transform his art.
Upon visiting Reina Sofia in Madrid I was taken aback at how his work seemed so disjointed. Although carefully arranged by period, it did not seem as a gradual shift but rather jolting transitions, seismic leaps in style and approach, likened to the sea during a maelstrom where the turgid water threatens to engulf the shore. One espies the earlier influences of Purvis de Chavannes and later Picasso's coconspirator George Braque. But then he bursted the constraints of cubism in Les Demoiselle d'Avignon. Nah, forget the labels. Upon looking at this retrospective of Picasso, one sees complexity straight on as tangled vines lost in a labyrinth where one no longer finds his or her way around.
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Picasso’s goal was to culminate his talents into his own immutable style. He gave permission for high level personal style. Personal Expression over technique.
I doubt it. The dude would use his fame as a form of payment. He’d go to the grocer with no money & instead of paying, he’d jot down a quick sketch because it was an “original Picasso” & more valuable than the items he wanted. He wasn’t interested in personal expression, he was only interested in HIS own personal expression. He didn’t care about art, he only cared about Picasso & how far he could push his fame & convincing people he mattered more than he actually did
@@koobs4549 You're 100 % Wrong. I merely stated his impact on the world of Art. Those things are real and are indelible. You can't imagine Modern Art without Picasso. It's like trying to imagine EDDIE VAN HALEN out of Rock Music.
He may have been a jerk.
You may be a Marxist professor working in Yale's art department.
History will remember things accordingly.
@@reethkitchardsuhhhh but the way modern art (because of picasso?) kinda sucks!!!! Things went downward instead of forward
@@BakkerSamuel Blame Critical Theory and talentless Marxists with tenure in MFA programs.
He's the myth of the power of curiosity for the unknown ...
Anything with unknown qualities gets mythologised to gigantic proportions .....
For example, fear of the unknown afterlife creates religious beliefs and cultures ...... unproven rumored creatures like Nessie creates such curiosity it spawns a tourist industry ...... unsolved serial murderers acquires a legacy of conspiracy theorist books and movies made after them .....
Picasso intentionally included random elements and disregarded proportions and perspective to confound the art critics who dare not criticise his art for looking childish but instead convince themselves there might be something meaningful beneath the seemingly random paintings ...
Warhol did that too, simply creating an impression of mystery and unknown qualities to arouse curiosity and off they went to the bank !
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The camera is at the heart of it all, change was needed otherwise just take a picture.
to learn copy painting realistically it took 4 years.but
to learn draw like a children it took a life
his drawings were trash. marxist filth
What a cute thing to say. Foolish, but cute.
@@michaeljohnangel6359
Once a salesman, always a salesman
Bullsh!t!!!!!
You truely missed out watching this video ! It explained, shared great info I didn't know prior, n partially glorified him n his genius, even when he was warped....a true master of his art n world's !!!❤
In Malaga Spain I saw the film where he painted on glass, it was then washed and another black and white painting began. It was genius to me. It was mesmerizing.
no mention of Georges Braque who probably invented cubism and collage. His father was a qualified house painter . in those days they learned how to imitate woodgrain and marbled surfaces etc. Techniques that Braque would incorporate in his art and Picasso could copy.
It's an unfortunate omission. My original script was 8,000 words. The video isn't really about cubism so I ended up cutting a lot things including that Picasso and Braque's paintings looked nearly identical for a time. I also wanted to talk about Guernica, World War II, and fascism...
@@TheConspiracyofArt will definitely wait for the Part2!
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But you must repent too. From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near. (Matthew 4:17):
I much prefer Braque. In my opinion a better artist than Picasso. Picasso leaves me with no other feeling than boredom...
Collage is about as old as paper and glue, the urge to credit it's invention to some Great Artist is younger than the technique itself. (For one neat historical example: Mary Delany used collage for botanical illustrations in the 1700s.)
Brilliant video essay. I’m tempted to read his ex-lover’s scandalous biography now… Thanks for making this!
Brilliant sales pitch. The musings of those that attribute all kinds of fancifull motives and powers to artists.
Top mysoginst polished turd artist... By far.
ur take on his art is subjective, anyone can argue something they dont like is polished shit.
@@modestrocker1 unfortunately true.
Thank you . This " artist " makes me vomit . I know what he did .
Brilliant. Please make one outlining the mining of Asian art in the Renaissance
Excellent content, keep ‘em coming! I just subscribed!
me To!
14:27 - 14:45 YES YES! This articulates it perfectly. I had always thought of art being magic, but never found a real way to define it. But this! This! It's perfect.
No, not what art is at all. It's two utilitarian objects that both function exactly the same... so which one do you choose? The one that looks more elegant to you. The one that might evoke a certain feeling. The one who's colors might put you in a certain mood. Now take two objects that have no utility at all, and apply the same rules. Which one would you want to hang on your wall and wake up to every morning. At least that's my definition. It has to be something I want to keep looking at. And that makes me feel something. Something that has emotional tones that are incredibly unique. Music is similar in that regard.
Pablo wouldn't know what "Divine or Sacred" creations are if his life depended on it.💀He is as guilty of steeling from the indigenous as much as the colonialist rapists who built the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro,
Thanks million for your amazing sharing!
Hey just wanted to say I love your stuff! Please keep going at it. From another art lover from Boston
Thanks, I appreciate it.
He also nursed a terminal girlfriend with cancer to death! It's trendy to call him mysoginist and forget how fabulous a painter he was! I notice nobody knocks Georgia O Keefe for living alone in the desert relinquishing relationships so she can concentrate on her artwork! They'll never forgive Picasso for being a workaholic something admirable in others who strive for excellence! How much is jealousy envy and desire to be as famous as him! Plus he's first to admit Velasquez was probably the greatest of all time and he couldn't paint like him until his 70's and his exhibition in UNSW art gallery was absolutely brilliant and overwhelming!
A “terminal girlfriend?” Well, if she had “cancer to death” I guess, yeah, she was a terminal girlfriend.
Sorry but disapproval of his abusive attitude does not makes us jealous. I'd disapprove of such attitude in ANY person. His style has a place in art history, but as a person he is not likeable, and don't ask us to be enablers. Just because someone is successful at something that does not excuse him being and a****.
Sensational and extremely educational in the best of ways!!! Thank you!!!
Yeah because it didn’t mention Picasso was a communist. His art was as distorted as his philosophical worldview.
so weird how no matter how well known the artist is. there will ALWAYS be 1,000s of better artists that arent famous
There weren’t. That’s why Picasso is a legend.
@@optimisticboy8603 oh no there are
@@aspirindamage5152 There are now but there weren’t
Better in which way?
@optimisticboy8603 u say there weren't that was known is said better.
trolled us all for eternity :)
No myth, just relentless hard work and incredible creativity.
He did not have incredible creativity. He was a degenerate and did not make art.
I see Picasso as the greatest gaslighting scam of his time.
His works are grotesque, admired by those who like to pretend they “understand” some deep inner meanings, but in actuality are as gullible as the people who fall for pyramid schemes.
I don’t begrudge Picasso the enormous wealth and fame he got from tricking people into and “emperor’s new clothes” type of grift. It must be human nature to rob those who beg to be robbed.
@@docinparadise - It's the countless modern "conceptual" artists who came after Picasso who are the true gaslighters. Picasso had a full range of skills and did traditional works of great beauty, but also experimented endlessly with form, creating what was "grotesque" to the casual observer. Sure, much of it appears strange and ugly, but look at the totality of his work.
@@jlovebirchi dont find his work great and also dont find it strange or ugly enough to be good. Its creative and has some skill, but its doesnt come further than creative experiments and illustration.
It doesnt have charm or depth
@@BakkerSamuel Art (and the perception of greatness) is a subjective experience. With Picasso, he mastered every style and kept moving forward and exploring. There's something for everyone in his vast mountain of work, some of which has great charm and depth. See the video "Why Did Picasso's Style Transform So Drastically?" for a well-researched overview.
That last part...wow...😮
good video glad i watched. kind of a chilling ending as well haha
I never cared for his art, and now I learned he was even more arrogant than I knew. Dali was better.
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Shows that people will believe anything if it's pushed hard enough , so the art world found a way to make more money.Picasso understood that there in lies his genius!Now everyone and anyone can call themselves an artist.He didn't have to compete with the greats and he was laughing all the way to the bank followed by one desperate penniless model after another.
I tell my students at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, that one can sell anything for a million euros if one spends 900,000 euros promoting it.
The ones who just copy and you can't tell their paintings apart because they all look like as if painted by one person?
I haaaaaate the art of Picasso with a passion
Really? Like you hate all of it? I find this hard to believe, have you seen how much his style changed over time? I can understand if you don’t like the style he is most famous for but even his earlier work looks like some of the masters. It’s not like he’s Jackson Pollock & only painted in a single technique
@@koobs4549 It only makes sense to hate (all of) Picasso's "art." It is dead boring. He is the Tiny Tim (the singer) of the art world.
That says everything about you and nothing about picasso
@@richiejohnson you think you’ve made a really profound point here but it doesn’t say anything about me other than that fact that I hate the art of Picasso …..and if you’ve looked at my comment I have already made that perfectly clear and I’m within my own rights to feel that way.
He would love your response. It seems sometimes impossible to engender or reach any passion in the audience, as an artist (musician, dancer, actor etc..).
Matisse and Picasso were frenemies
Thx for sharing his a genius and talented.🙌🏻🙌🏻
GOATED video, thanks I really loved it.
Excellent production, very good narration, and an informative pleasure to watch. I want to paint a few Picasso knock offs now, just for fun!
The Mystery of Picasso, the movie, is like an edge of your seat action movie for artists. The changes he makes are scary as he keeps ruining perfect composition to make another and another, matador style action - it will get artists to freak out.
Agree. The last part with Picasso painting a huge wall mural timelapsed over a few days is a roller-coaster ride.
My take was paintings or images he did previously was used in the mural as a component, a letter or word in the larger composition. So, similiar to writing a rough draft erasing, crossing out a section Picasso would ad hoc create a painting putting down a pre-formed image then painting over or scraping it off the ground as he improvised it.
@@vincentgoupil180 yeah, you get it. I just rented it from the library the other day and it never gets old. Peace ✌
this is far from an artist freakout
@@modestrocker1 didja see the whole movie, I think it's on kanopy for free
Picasso was not an artist, just a degenerate.
Stands testament of the greatness of his art that it continues to provoke controversy a century later. Count yourself lucky if it gets under the skin .
Picasso is always more famous than good!
Great video, fresh look!
Convo i had:
"If you could have dinner with any deceased person who would it be?"
"Picasso"
"Why"
"So I can kill him myself"
killing picasso would have done way more good than the attempted murder of andy warhol
Great docu, well done.
The concept of modernity seems lacking ought to be called momentum instead. We've gained so much speed that we've blew through several ions already.
Very nice 👍,
I see many postcards from my personal collection with details on painting and artwork that have no explanation.
ballin video man
Ten minutes in, and you make no mention of the myth of Picasso.
juxtapositions very good. will think about "all" this. thank-you.
What a trove of documentary film that I have never seen before of this master of art. I am surprised at the churlish tone of so many comments here. Can there really be any controversy that he was the primary mover of modern art?
This man took up the eradication of love from his heart and mind...and accomplished its avoidance as a misanthropic 'champion' in the lurid Pantheon men have made of such "gods". Despite his canonization by those envious of his temporal success, I doubt he has maintained any affection for the cult he so assiduously practiced at one time.
After his teenage years his painting was abismal and he knew it but didn't care. He was more interested in selling paintings with minimal effort. A pure materialist with an unclean soul.
Well if you think about it, on the pure business side its a pretty efficient model, and on the personal art creation side, you can do whatever the hell you want, so he is winning on both sides 🤔
@@edo_moya that's a materialist way of looking at it and you are 100% right.
He was talentless scum.
He discovered his own unique style. And left an important mark in art history, regardless of that that he was being abusive. It would be very boring if he just kept painting realism.
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Just before it crashes, an ailing society tends to feed itself to the collective ego of the psychopathic type.
Picasso normalized adults buying expensive children’s art made by other adults.
How is Picasso art children’s art
Excellent video.
Lovely video, just one nitpicky note:
18:55 The Dutch name "Piet" sounds like the English name "Pete". A lot of people might claim otherwise, but none of them will be Dutch.
Fijne dag!
Thanks :)
Juist, wij bekijken dit tenslotte niet voor Piet Snot!
Really great peice thank you for sharing...
Dude. Hella well made video.
Great vid. Uber great channel. Gold.
a wonderful sketch
nice work
just subbed 👍
14:11 'He said this (regarding African art and masks) after visiting the Trocadero Museum "To examine these masks; all those magical objects people had created with a magical purpose, to serve as intermediaries to them and the hostile forces that surrounded them, thereby trying to overcome their fears, leaving them color and shape and then I understood what painting really meant. it is not an aesthetic process. It is a form of magic that stands between us and a hostile universe. A means of taking power. Imposing a form on our terrors as well as our wishes. The day I understood that, the day I found my way. "'
Read Picasso's friend Andre Derain took him to see a collection of African masks for the first time. Derain wrote Picasso was disgusted seeing them.
Legend🔥🖼🎨
The Myth of Picasso was that he could paint.
I would say "fiction," rather than myth.
Could he .? Look at his early work ..😵💫
He could paint in several different styles actually.
I'm not going to watch this. Picasso was real!
The video is still quite good.
A real ass
no he wasnt
A real colonizer
A real colonizer
Nah, Picasso paintings were just like the "the Emperor's New Clothes". Art sellers marketed his work because he could make 100+ paintings in a month while traditional painters sometimes didn't complete 1 in that time. Art houses wanted to make more money, so they convinced everyone Picasso was the 'hot new thing' and his confidence as a narcissist helped to sell it.
These days people are finally seeing through the BS that was the tasteless scribbles of this art period and Picasso's work is LOSING value. The paintings at auction are quietly being sold for less than ever before.
Meanwhile masters like Bougerou who lost some popularity after his death and the rise of abstract art like Picasso, are now proudly displayed in galleries again and selling for record highs. THIS man painted with such skill and heart, he had a sound work ethic, he had integrity, and he supported and taught female artists in a time no one else would.
The modernists were simply in rebellion against the skill and control the old masters, their literal former teachers including William Bougerou, had. Being original just to be different is both immature and adds no value to society. And to assume new is always better is just the arrogance of the young.
BOUGUEREAU.
I was wondering how far down the comments section I would have to go before I would find the first rational response to this video. Thank you for your post. You will probably get a kick out of this analysis of Picasso ruclips.net/video/cOQhVMxzCqs/видео.htmlsi=WH8M6G7Ir1uuR9zb
boring
I was already rolling my eyes at this pearl clutching take on modernism. Then you go and mention Bougerou 😂
Art market is still selling a lot and making a lot of profit. It is about capital. Nobody cares what kind of a bastard the artist is. It depends on the times what sells best.
Actually the modernists were rebelling against class division not just traditional painting techniques. They hated the polished finished academic paintings which allowed portrayal only of rich people or mythological beings. Those polished academic paintings were serving like a beauty filter for the rich. To idolize them. And only the rich could afford them of course. Modernists challenged that. They wanted to paint everyday people, not just the rich or mythological beings. So you are discrediting them here. Their work was valuable in its own ways. Take pointillism for example. They discovered optical mixing of color. Today, scientists know that our visual system in our brains has the ability to mix color like that. Modern artist discover that, not the traditional ones. Because they dared to paint differently and break off with tradition. They didn't tried to be different just for the sake of being different like you claim.
Can we start talking about the artists that are alive more please, I know one should know history but this is becoming an echo champer, of the same dead white male artists
I understand where you are coming from. 99% of western art history is dead white men. Interestingly, it was critic John Berger’s writing about Picasso’s relationship with women that led to the concept of the male gaze that became widely influential in feminist theory. Talking about Picasso provides a way to talk about the trajectory of art and culture in the 20th century like no other artist.
As my channel grows, I plan on covering lesser known artists. If I were to do this now, no one would watch the videos. Plus, I teach part-time so these videos help me do that. RUclips is an imperfect platform. Art 21 has great video profiles on living artists.
Destroy the patriarch is also an echo chamber. Look at the latest Whitney biennial. Lol
Damn, I was hoping there was a conspiracy theory that he never existed, or was actually some other very staid and traditional artist who made him up. You know, The History Channel stuff.
😁
That sounds better than what I made.
Can you please do a video on Dali?
“It is impossible to look at his art without thinking about him.”
That’s not good or bad.
I love the Old man with the guitar 🎸 really awesome painting. It may have been someone else I am thinking of.
i appreciate the nod to african art!
Great channel! Just subscribed.
Saw the retrospective of his work at MoMA in 1980. Can't get enough Picasso; Guernica, sculpture, etchings, later works, can't get enough.
That's cool.
@@TheConspiracyofArt When watching your video, I finally broke down and ordered Francoise Gilot's 'Life with Picasso'.
@@pottersjournal Hah. Yeah I think it's an important piece of the puzzle - and she was smart and talented.
@Debed Thanks. I know interviews with her are fascinating to listen to.
Far more than enough total crap from that moron, that petty criminal, who never learned to paint properly. Someone gave him a box camera with broken lens, that's the origin of his segmented figures, no vision, no nothing. What a charade!
I think Picasso was a bit of a one trick pony style wise, but it was nonetheless visually pleasing.
He was more than his paintings though and I don’t begrudge his success.
The element of promotion and knowing what to be influenced by is a huge talent in itself.
One trick pony, are you serious? Love him or hate him, his style changed considerably over the years. Not to mention all of the different mediums he used. Saying Picasso was a one trick pony is one of the most uninformed things I've heard in a long time.
@@cdronk his blue phase was nothing significant. Once he found his style he stuck with it. Nothing wrong with it, but it’s not like he reinvented himself multiple times.
Inspiring video! Thanks. Easy sub :)
This is a really incredible video, thank you for putting this out
@16:01 Les Demoiselles D'Avignon is horizontally flipped
10:10 People in this time were so much more dramatic in how they saw art. If Picasso had a tiktok account and posted something like that in today's age, he'd probably just get a lot of comments saying it's cringe lol
Okay, formalism.
lovely video essay.
Now it’s just some shit we sketch in our free time, Internet hegemony I love it
informative thank you
The old fart could have taken a dump on the sidewalk and some art nerd would have tried to buy it. He was laughing all the way to the bank.
The ending was amazing good stuff
Great essay.
Cool.
THANK YOU
Pollock worried him, no matter what he said. He always reckoned Matisse was better than himself.
I don't understand this "better" or "worse" , art is not competition. Comparing two different artists is like comparing apples and bananas.
@abstract3213 Well, that's your opinion.X
This was EXCELLENT .. thank you for your work
I went to the Picasso museum in Barcelona. Was the most boring museum exhibit
ive ever seen...
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Wow, that was deep. Thank you.
🤦♂️Picasso was a communist and his art was as distorted as his worldview. Garbage.
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Seems like Mark Gonzalez has become skateboarding’s Picasso.
Maybe but Neil Blender made Picassos in the middle of skate contests :)
Firstly. Picasso stole from African art and distorted the faces….And Matisse called it cubism. Narrators always failed to make mention of that.
He also took from Gauguin, who took from Polynesia.
🙄🙄🙄
Grotesque features are not exclusive to African art.
@@Pantano63 ok.
@@Makonen442 Yea.
I recently found a motherload of Picasso's mostly jewelry pottery and decor a few other really random thing that scare the shit outta me.. unexplainable things.. like he chose me to own his works as many are engraved to me.. my full name. They will say like to Carl Faberge on a few.. then for.. and my name😳.. and I am afraid to show anybody because the extent of what I've found and the images that are behind the works are extremely explicit and demonic.. a statue I found dripping in gold blindly attached me to it at a thrift store like a magnet without even seeing it and when I grabbed it an unexplainable surge of ominous energy jolted through my body like I've never felt or experienced.. an unholy almost violently powerful feeling.. but what I experienced once I brought it home was unbelievable and insane, I don't even want to talk about it.. I've got 100s of pieces signed Picasso a bracelet I found has a picture of me in it.. wtf is going on?