source:
http://www.idcommunism.com/2016/04/pablo-picasso-why-i-became-communist.html
Rembrandt. Another great! Beautiful!
I wonder if abstract artists like Picasso simply lack the ability and accept this fact and then paint in a style that hides their lack of ability. Just my opinion, of course.
I wonder if abstract artists like Picasso simply lack the ability and accept this fact and then paint in a style that hides their lack of ability.
A representation of reality by the great artists approached the fidelity of photography, but could go no farther. Perfection is perfection.
So how were new artists to make names for themselves if they produced perfectly what was already being done? There had to be a breakout. And since the current state was realism, the only way to go was surrealism, expressionism, and other non-representational styles. It had to happen.
And when photography matured, the demand for representational art fell drastically. The ‘isms’ were the state now. And after the Armory art show in New York, Deco shoved into line with nouveau, forcing new artists even further out until arriving at the end, non-representational art. Monkey, elephants, and toddlers now produced art, and in one case, in an art museum, the sculpture art piece was delayed, and people actually thought the empty plinth was an artistic expression.
So, no, it wasn’t lack of ability at first, but now in poetry, sculpture, painting, and prose ability is elitist and probably white supremacist.
Current Communist Goals [1963]:
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
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