I think he's very overrated. His early work proves that he has a huge amount of technical ability, but his mid and later work is soulless and cartoonish. the main thing is he has no subtlety whatsoever. Everything is exaggerated and stretched flat to the point of boredom. Guernica is a good example. It's not bad by any means, but personally I find it too flat and cartoonish to be emotionally powerful. It's certainly not what I'd consider a masterpiece. He apparently spent very little time on each painting (often churning out three a day), and it really shows. So many of them are mere sketches with nothing more beneath the surface. And his look bordered on gimmicky and campy after awhile. It became a brand. Obviously he was tremendously talented, but the fact that he had no personal filter or patience eally detracted from his output. Prolific doesn't = great. Gauguin and Van Gogh >>> Picasso
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Because i feel bad about shortchanging him, here are a couple examples of how gorgeous his early stuff was. I lovewhat he did during the blue period:
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I hope you are not thinking it's souless and cartoonish just because of the style and the maybe 'lack' of details, as compared with the naturalism in his earlier work. You have to take into account the times his work went through. His work with the 'exaggerated and flat' style happened during a movement called Cubism. A lot of artists were experimenting with this new idea of fragmentation in their works--it was something exciting, something fresh. And eventually it also lead to more abstract art, something simpler... What they wanted was something completely new, something different than what they had in the past (which is the kind of realistic imagery that you have shown here). It was what they felt the times needed...
The work you have here now may have more of a 'serious' theme but that doesn't make its worth higher than his other works. Can't it be enough to have art that has no deep meaning behind it but rather its colours and composition are enough to make someone happy ?
Shoe designed by Pablo Picasso and fabricated by Perugia, late fifties. A small number were made as promotional items, this one given to an official in the French Ministry of Culture.
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Original and unique? Definately not. It sold for USD$2,000. I believe the image was licensed to a dress maker so it was a production piece. I know Picasso was in cahoots with Jean Charles de Castelbajac at that time - but the auction house would have said this was a Castelbajac to augment its value.
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I will never forget the moment i saw Guernica for the first time.I just stood there in total aw and couldnt take my eyes off it,the array of emotions it provoked in me.I am not fan of his work in general though,i am more into Impressionism,but i also adore his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Interesting how the sleeve in the poster became the back of the dress. Thanks, Gius!! It's wonderful to see the dress and poster together. I suspect that both the dress and the poster are from a painting.
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^Oh! The three musicians
I really love this period when his style is bright and colourful like this
flat and highly patterned, simulated texture --everyone blends into eachother
and there's another painting with the same title as this britannica |
^ i had always wondered about that style
i wasn't sure where to pinpoint .. the style of the bodies
but the faces really look classic
the bodies more rounded , kind of cubist ..
thanks GB
nice colours.. nice design 
I suspect that both the dress and the poster are from a painting.
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