Picasso 'stole the work of African artists'

UK Telegraph ^ | 3/12/06 | Stephen Bevan

[wagglebee]

Every art movement in history has emerges BECAUSE various artists copied the styles of others.

[tallhappy]

Jonathan Richman was certainly wrong.

[Popman]

Every original thought and concept first came out of Africa.

Didn't you get the memo?

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Was that the UN memo or the NAALCP memo?

[Joe Boucher]

After his death they took all the stuff around his home and had a world tour. The 1st place the show appeaered was Seoul Korea of all places. I was fortunate enough to see it there. More recently I witnessed another very large collection of his work in South east Florida. In between at the Smithsonian, Norton in Pasadena and W. Palm Beach. Getty in Santa Monica N.Y.s met and others.Prolific isn't the word.
He didn't copy or steel. He was a genius of creativity.

Learn from others style? Yes of course but copy or steel. No way.

[1rudeboy]

Al Gore stole my Internet idea. There you have it . . . I just had to get it off my chest.

[Brett66]

Every original thought and concept first came out of Africa.

Does that include slavery and mass genocide?

[mc6809e]

He is a thief!

And while we're on the subject of cultures stealing from other cultures, let me suggest that you read Shakespeare in the original Klingon. Some things just don't translate well into English.

[Steamburg]

I thought we didn't post racist articles. LOL

[Popman]

Was that the UN memo or the NAALCP memo?

No, of course not. It came straight from the mothership

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[Richard Axtell]

Illiteracy has its penalties, one of which is reactionary cultural bigotry, as reflected by the influence of leftist "Multiculturalism" which is nothing more than anti-Western curltural chauvinism. Even when artistic inspiration is well attributed, anti-Western critics feel the need to spout venom. They are as enlightened as the Taliban were, when then destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

[Lizavetta]

I'll never forget this show I saw 6 or so years ago that appeared to be basically about black achievement or some such theme. Much of the audience was in traditional African dress complete with the robes and hats, and the only host i remember was the guy who played Jordy on Star Trek.

Well, it turns out that basically everything orginated in Africa, including the martial arts. Oh yes, it did. The Asian dudes in the audience were looking at each other like, What the ....

I guess it makes blacks feel better to 'claim' everything. Call it AlGore-itis.

[vpintheak]

And the white man stole it, don't forget that part.

[ReignOfError]

Jonathan Richman was certainly wrong.

Nicely played, sir.

[Popman]

Does that include slavery and mass genocide?

Those concepts did come out of Africa, but it was because the white man forced them too.

< /sarcasm >

[4U2OUI]

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[Billthedrill]

Illiteracy has its penalties, one of which is reactionary cultural bigotry, as reflected by the influence of leftist "Multiculturalism" which is nothing more than anti-Western cultural chauvinism.

Beautifully put, sir, and so I repeat it.

[wagglebee]

It is also worth noting that many of the great artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Picasso, Van Gogh, etc.) received a great deal of their inspiration from huge quantities of absinthe and other hallucinogens.

[hosepipe]

[ Picasso 'stole the work of African artists' ]

AH! HA!.. sooo thats why his work looks like it does..
Scratching head.. never could figure what people saw in it..

Picasso the psuedo-RAP artist.. now that expains it..