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:R Some of this *art* is only considered to be *art* because of the reputation of the artist. Someone else who has no reputation in the art world could paint/sculpt/solder/build/photograph the same thing, and be ridiculed, pointed at, silently laughed at or completely ignored..

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Some of this *art* is only considered to be *art* because of the reputation of the artist.

My grandaughter makes some beautiful drawings. :)

What makes art art?

Skill?

Beauty?

Realism?

Novelty?

Maybe its just another game humans play.

I've not considered the question much, charis, but I've an idea art is that which deepens our appreciation of life and the world, and gives us fresh viewpoints for our stale ones. Art should wake us up out of the everyday humdrum drone ... it should help us to fly above the fog...

In my seven-year-old grandaughter's case, her art is a celebration of the things she loves... animals...mermaids...

Picasso said every child is an artist but the hard part is to remain an artist after growing up.

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He was a strange man.

<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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Picasso said every child is an artist but the hard part is to remain an artist after growing up.

Not much evidence that he succeeded at either one.

“the slovenliness of our language makes it easier to have foolish thoughts.” George Orwell

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?...an american buddah...?

-Jo Davidson sculpting Gertrude Stein, photo by Man Ray, Paris, 1926

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Picasso, Portrait of the artist's mother

(Maria Picasso Lopez), 1896

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Two very different looks. The portrait of 1900 looks like a Slavic young man to me. The 1906 portrait looks like a young Spanish Egyptian. And he lost so much hair in 6 yrs, yikes.

<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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He must have been a handsome young man. The bone structure is still the same in each picture as we would expect from a good 'realistic' artist.

The next one is from 1907.

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Picasso, Self-portrait, 1972

He looks like a gentle old soul.

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Hey, I draw just about that well.

<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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It looks to me like Picasso went crazy.

For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Mat. 16:26

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I need to read his biography. It looks to me like he was thinking about coffins and caskets.

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[color:666666]"In his last years particularly, his production took on a manic and obsessive quality, as though the creative act (however repetitious) could forestall death. Which it could not. His death left the public with a nostalgia for genius that no talent today, in the field of painting, can satisfy."

-Robert Hughes, TIME art critic

Biography about the life of the famous Spanish Artist Pablo Picasso

born Pablo Ruiz Picasso - Malaga, Spain - 25th of October, 1881 / Died - April 8, 1973

Read it at:

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/picasso_biography.htm

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Redwood logging train in Freshwater, Humboldt County, California, before 1900. Photo by Ericson of Arcata.

<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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