Art is not an object

Art is an experience, not an object.

 - Robert Motherwell

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I spent almost a lifetime trying to understand art. I read many books and spoke to many experts and I still did not understand it. I eventually realised, that this was a good thing. 

If it is art, it will stimulate. Otherwise it is just some colours, noise, an assembly of inconsequential objects or just movements of the body.

When we look at something objectively we use the mind. The mind feels nothing for its a cold analytical thing. Art touches our being, and that is a matter of the heart. Matters of the heart cannot be understood, merely experienced.

What a dreary place our world would be without artists.

Pablo Picasso on, Art Critics and Artists

Science and Charity (1897) - Pablo Picasso 

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning.
  When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

-  Pablo Picasso

 

Self Portrait -Pablo Picasso

Guernica -Pablo Picasso (1937

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Pablo Picasso, Spanish born painter and sculptor, was the founder of Western modern art. He demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent at an early age. 

A good artist is someone who either soothes or stimulates. A great artist like Picasso does both for he provokes and inspires.

He created an art movement known as Cubism. In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart and put back together in weird forms and geometric shapes like cubes, cones, or cylinders. The final image provokes the viewer to step out of the normal and mundane and examine objects and situations with a refreshingly interesting and unusual perspective.