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Pablo Picasso's art thru 8 decades (Original Post) packman Jun 2015 OP
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CrawlingChaos

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1. It always amuses me...
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:23 PM
Jun 2015

...when people express surprise that young Picasso was so skilled at conventional, representational painting. That's true of all the other great abstract expressionists as well, of course. They learned the rules before they broke them, which is how you achieve your full potential.

God I love that self-portrait at age 19. So economical yet so intense.

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