... I don't watch the 'News'.... to hear about all the BS and shitty behaviour that goes on across the globe, humanity hurting humanity.
I pick up snippets of things that interest me. Chelsea Flower Show, Catherine's 'Nature Garden', and HM being guided around it, wearing yellow. Catherine=Royal-Hippie-Chick (we heart her for her earthiness)
... That a Picasso painting, or suspected Picasso, was just found in my local auction rooms...
... on hearing this second-hand news, in my second hand shop..I could not help but notice that I was wearing my 'support-an-artist-get-up' - which is **Breton navy cashmere jersey and navy bow-belted linens, espadrilles and up-cycled tent canvas bag - a little bit 'Coco', a little bit French Modernist/Picasso/Cezanne. Good thing I don't have huge mammaries..that would look like 'stripe distortion'. Not cool. I'm genuinely sad for women with huge breasts. It must be a helluva strain on the body...and it looks shitty. The only time you need big breasts is when you are making milk (or using them as man bait, which some sad bitches do) Men who like huge mammaries are sad fucks.
Now, we all know about the world of art forgery and theft - and that the Art World is the most corrupt (more than the Finance World) Yes. Really.
So, what have we got, here? A painting turns up, bought for £230 in a boot sale/flea market...makes it's way to an auction room and now there's a furore. Is it, or isn't it the real McCoy???? The real McPicasso?
...specialists and art critics all deciphering.....hmmmmmm?
It's funny (not haha, ironic) that someone has analysed the 'brush strokes', and is not entirely convinced...(smoke screen alert) is now using this as a means to dispute it's authenticity.
Apparently someone has, hands up, admitted to it's fakery.
I'm internally crying and groaning.
Picasso changed his style and location throughout his life. He was constantly reinventing himself (Scorpio year of the Snake)... as all Snakes tend to need to do (the shedding of old skin) and Scorpio's (phoenix rising from the ashes) A Master of reinvention and a bit of a magpie in stealing ideas (creative genii do this...Madonna Ciccone, par exemple)
Rumour has it that the painting was made as a gift for the family he had visited (might have been Lee Miller..I'd have to check that) when he stayed in Firle, East Sussex. He had frequented the Five Bells pub https://www.thefivebellschailey.co.uk/ in Chailey.... hoping to bump into Laura Wright to discuss Modern Art and do a bit of sketching..(just kidding : ) - but, wish fulfilment on my part.
....he made sketches, as per norm, and offered a sketch up in exchange for the bevvies consumed...the dumb-ass publican declined the sketch/es and wanted 'the dollar', as per norm
...someone lost out, there....and it wasn't Picasso...the G-d who is Picasso... see....that's present tense...'is' Picasso, not 'was' Picasso...he lives forever and I really do often worship him. Yep...at school I couldn't worship G-d effigies (F-igies...F***igies...I could only worship artists...nothing's changed with me).
...I went to Malaga (his birth place). I lived there. I visited his home of birth, often (now a museo) and Southern France (where he relocated during the Spanish Civil War) and took French citizenship. I went to pay homage to him. I have seen so many museums that house his works. Paris. France boasts to house most of his works, not Spain. Although I have not seen 'Geurnica', in the real - Museo de la Riena Sophia, Madrid. Wrote an essay on it, not seen it. A painting about the Spanish Civil War. Bucket list.
https://www.google.com/search?q=guernica&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB814GB831&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjN_4Gg2rfiAhXDRBUIHQRCCpsQ_AUIDigB
I believe he left a little bit of himself in Sussex, cos that's what artist do. They leave a piece of them wherever they go. They are that fucking generous and meglomaniac. Mostly, they wanna share what they got (and why they are so fucking burnt out)
...history and education digression...
This artwork is now under scrutiny...'brush strokes', PLEASE (grow the fuck up)....Brushstrokes change, over years and depending on many factors, including location, materials available, tiredness, sparkiness, life circumstances, depression, mania, enthusiasm etc.
You know what is super sad? If I was asked to proclaim whether or not this artwork was by Pi9casso...(did you see that 9?) I would fucking know. I would not have the 'evidence', the critique boloney...the question mark, the investigative BS, and all the fucking bollocks that comes along with the world of art and forgery and critique.
I have studied art, at degree level and I continue to study art, so I am well aware of the boloney that critiques and 'artist wannabes' can come up with...it's actually painful to read, or hear at times...(a critic is an artist wannabe, but did not have the talent, drive or tenacity)
...I would just know. There would be evident passion in it.
And of course they would not take my word for it, because I'm no art 'specialist', in their world. What evidence could I provide? The fact that I have studied the European and American Modernist era, not just once, but twice (with awards) and in my own working time.
Now, everyone is excited about this artwork, because it will be worth hundreds of thousands or millions. I hope that Picasso is enjoying watching them sweat.
Of course he is. His legacy is SO huge that he can do this and those laugh lines around his eyes and mouth...they must be just so engraved..as he sits on his celestial throne..looking at the mere mortals, being...well, mere mortals
Shine on Picasso. Remember that I love you, and everything that I learned from you. You and Matisse, and Cezanne....Superstars...of the Modernist era.. the trailblazers and the best of the Spanish/French Modernists by a long, long, long shot... there is no room for argument...no dispute..try me : )
What makes me so sure? It's about having been awake : ) and studying, and learning, understanding and making, and doing for eons.
What makes me pity the human race...their greed for money and how they all want a piece of genius...to get their sad asses a little bit more...interesting..
...and remember this NOBODY CAN EVER OWN ART> THEY ARE CARETAKERS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION>THE ART IS OWNED BY THE ARTIST WHO CREATED IT>
..Art is born of the artist. Simple. I'm just keeping it 100%
I wish you a lot of luck deluding yourself that it belongs to you : )
I hate to burst your bubble (but I kinda like it too)
I like keeping it real. There is nothing else to do.
Picasso was quoted to have said:
Everything you can imagine is real.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
If this isn't the truth, I don't know what is.
*TV programme=programming=brainwashing=matrix
**Sometimes it's the only thing that feels good, despite the unfeasibly large wardrobe that I have. Shopping habit, that I am not ashamed of. Better than shooting up, or a sex addiction, alcohol addiction problem. I always end up looking pretty, elegant and stylish, not dead.
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