Pablo Picasso in Raw Form

Picasso is so much like me having a passion for drawing and craft at early age.   He was a social butterfly, made friend didn’t do well in school.   Throughout his life his painting was categories for as blue period, rose period, African-influenced period, etc.  He was known as having several painting rank the most expensive painting in the world.  I do love anything expensive……  I didn't really ever appreciate Picasso until more recently. As I have visited galleries and seen his works and studied his life more, I feel he is one of the greater artistic geniuses of the 20th Century. I think Picasso is comparing himself to the classic traditions and the traditions of the old masters. I agree with him, a lot of today's artist have lost those foundations. Art must as well be judged in its place and time and Picasso changed a lot about the modern art world. I think he spent his life exploring what fascinated him, regardless of what he says about playing to the crowd that would make him rich and famous. It is a common struggle of every artist I know to think and question if they are not really artists at all.