Good afternoon, my fellow art enthusiasts. I have a theory about Picasso.
The art world missed out on the expressionists, using a new oil paint for the first time.
When Picasso came along with his "cubist" concept for artwork they jumped on him.
His "woman descending a staircase" did have many lines that suggested a kinetic motion,
trying to sound professorly here, but after that he was just tossing them out.
His lifestyle was a sad obsession about sex with women all the time, being called a satyr.
When insurance companies and investors started appraising his artwork through the roof,
he could scribble on a piece of typing paper and sign it and sell it for over $5,000,
usually to Americans.
For the last twenty or thirty years of his life he really stopped painting,
and started cranking out ceramics made by a company he used,
with his signature guaranteeing big bucks at auctions and for the tourist trade.
When I say the new global news media missed out on the Expressionists,
don't forget Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime,
and that was through his brother who was an art dealer.
I see Turner the same way, investors creating a market for him in a British kind of way.
At least his paintings suggested a landscape, most of the time.
Whoever got the bass player from Spinal Tap to play him in an autobiographical movie...
Back then, my favorites would have been Albrecht Durer and Edward Degas.
I'm back to add some Canadian content about what is good art and what isn't.
Jean Claude Riopelle got famous for his paintings with thick paint that were just thick paint.
They were big, some were very big, and his "new style" was about using thick paint with colours, only abstract.
He and his wife made it big in American art circles as a "French" artist from Montreal.
Instead of thick paint I should have said pastiche, again, trying to sound professorly.
Now, at art galleries and in homes, his paintings are starting to fall apart and can't be restored.
Their value is going down, down, et tres down.
Hey! This is the first time I cut and pasted an image. Now I'm a digital artist too.