“If you know exactly what you’re going to do, what’s the good in doing it? since you know, the excercise is pointless. It is better to do something else.” – Picasso
After i got home from school i put this thought into practice , i planted some paper onto my small easel and let my mind loose. It was extraordinary, i had no purpose but the purpose to collaborate thoughts which turned into strokes. The result was a similar construction for expressionism, but to me it was more representing the process of free thinking rather than recording my inner emotion. Thoughtism maybe :)?
We visited Barcelona for a school art trip last weekend, which enabled me to explore my observational creativity and to see Picasso’s and Dali’s work in the flesh.
The adventure which one experiences when roaming around the Picasso museum is exciting and inspirational. You witness the magnificent genius at the age of 9 and 15 then you mentally re-live his journey through his art styles. Personally, the blue and his primitivism periods stood out for me, they embodied Picasso’s eye for reflection and emotion also they directly challenge the academicism which we still have today.
Most/ well all of the students in my art class shun his later works which included some of his cubist and highly abstract works. I find to become encapsulated by them; I find his earlier works mechanical in technique and wispy in content. I asked one of my friends; why don’t you like his later works? They replied – ‘because its not art’. I was tempted to ask, if its not art then what is it? Can it be defined as anything else? It cannot due to it not conforming to the set of rules that constitute any other form of visual representation or any other forms. I replied to my friend and said; ‘natural flare and practice can make an artist able to draw with pristine detail, but it takes natural flare, practice and genius to find or create a pristine detail in the realm of reality.’ Which, Picasso ultimately did.
