picasso..opened doors into new ways of seeing...cubism joe.. that's what artists do...the great ones..they are visionaries. how doth mark rothko and jackson pollock sit with you?. i believe it was pollock who said that technique follows after you have something to say i mean to say what are you going to say in your paintings joe?... then through that you find the technique..unless you are obsessed with "realism"..what ever that means... we could question this concept till we are "blue in the face"
holy holy mother of all saints... and yes i smile... ^^^^^^^ as doth mona lisa ********* ####### ++++++++ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how wicked is that?. .merle --Joe PS I tell you WHAT, I think what I honestly like the very best about Picasso's art is his methods. In that way, he's a bit like a Zen teacher, for ME: one who transmits methods. The methods I'm speaking of are ways of seeing, and ways of representing. The ways of seeing, as they help me, are ways of seeing reality and appreciating it, and ways of applying that seeing in order to make stains on canvasses. His own ways of representing -- technical methods of painting -- are also of great interest to me now, as a beginning painter. But Picasso is not my Guru for painting! I don't have one, for painting. I have none of Picasso's art, out and about, at home (except in books); what I appreciate most, of his, again, are the methods, even though I don't know how much I'll use his methods of representing. But, you know, it's hard to separate his methods of seeing from his ways of representing. So, we'll "see". It's early days, here. > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: > > I don't think much of Picasso's art but I do really like his quote that "Art > is lies that tell the truth." > > AND it's important to understand that quote applies ALSO to illusions in Zen. > > Illusions ARE lies that tell the truth. That is illusions are illusory but > they reveal Buddha Nature. > > A great Zen saying from Picasso slightly altered!
