• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I’ve gotta say, the “1” in 14 is really easy to miss, and I was very impressed with the art of a 4 year old Picasso.

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    What’s the saying about learning the rules and then learning how to break them?

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      While not as stark a difference as Picasso I think Van Gogh is another good example of this, looking at some of his earlier works he was clearly a competent artist, but he really came into his own style later on.

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      There’s some discussion that the weird morphing of his style was caused by undiagnosed mental illness progressing to advanced stages when he got older.

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          When I look at this, all I can think about is that that guy went on an LSD binge in his early 20s.

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        6 months ago

        Wasn’t that about Van Gogh’s vision?

        “It took…but a lifetime to paint like a child”

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    “Visiting an exhibition of children’s drawings, Picasso (according to Roland Penrose) said: “When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.””

    I saw this quote on a display when I was at the Picasso museum in Malaga last summer