> -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen D'Andrea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 May 2006 02:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Picasso's Camera > > > >>> <http://www.detroitmona.com/picasso's_camera.htm> > >>> > Interesting? Yes. > Fascinating? In a way, yes. > Funny? Quite. > Real? Hmmmmm. > > Come on. This is a joke, right? An elaborate one with strong > implications for the "people will believe what they are led > to believe" theme of some contemporary art, but still, an > enormous pulling of our visual legs. Those color photos > suggest Photoshop a lot more than they do the early 20th > century. Call me a skeptic, albeit one with an appreciative > sense of humor, but I'm not buying it. Am I just missing > everyone's wry wink of the eye? That gets lost in email. >
not necessarily. Picasso was using photography at the time that he was painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and his prints show that he was experimenting in ways that clearly foreshadow Cubism. For example, there is a well-known portrait he made of Le Douanier Rousseau which he overprinted with another negative of one of Rousseau's paintings. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a truly shocking and revolutionary painting when it was first shown. Even his contemporary artists didn't understand it. He had many, many influences on the composition, from classical European art to African masks and ethnographic photos and his own photos. Of course, the colour photos shown on the website are not by Picasso, and the website does not claim that they are, but he certainly used photography. Bob
