Charlatan by eyeland
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"From the moment that art ceases to be food that feeds the best minds, the artist can use his talents to perform all the tricks of the intellectual charlatan. Most people can today no longer expect to receive consolation and exaltation from art. The 'refined,' the rich, the professional 'do-nothings', the distillers of quintessence desire only the peculiar, the sensational, the eccentric, the scandalous in today's art. I myself, since the advent of Cubism, have fed these fellows what they wanted and satisfied these critics with all the ridiculous ideas that have passed through my mind. The less they understood them, the more they admired me. Through amusing myself with all these absurd farces, I became celebrated, and very rapidly. For a painter, celebrity means sales and consequent affluence. Today, as you know, I am celebrated, I am rich. But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown--a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest."
- Pablo Picasso
Comments (6)
nongo
a child prodigy, and one of the greatest geniuses in art history, Picasso!!! Excellent creation, your artwork also pushes the mind to the edge!!!!! Brilliant!!!!!
serendigity59@gmail.com
Your work is food for the eyes, lots to see and absorb.
dimiter
I like every byte of this composition!
TwoPynts
A brave and honest statement from a man that was an artist, wether he accepted it or not. Still, perhaps that humble stance is a key component of creating inspiring art. LOL, today I would say it looks as though both Picaso and Salvador Dali got a hold of one of your mandalas and slowly metled it over a hot stove, stirring occasionally. ;^P
matasabu
Excellent color work, imagination!!
wawadave
cubistic revivelisum?