There are lessons to be learned from the art and the mind of Pablo Picasso. His techniques, creative insights, and empathy of his art has distinguished him as the revolutionary artist of the twentieth century.
“When I was a child, my mother told me, ‘If you become a soldier, you will be a general. If you become a monk, you will end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
Ah, the confidence to do what you were destined to do in life, and to do it well. This is a lesson all creators of the arts can take to heart.
Pablo Picasso was an innovative thinkers of his time. He reinvented himself many times over during his career. Depending on his mental state and what was going on in the world at the time, his paintings took on the persona of: depression during his ‘Blue Period’; love during his ‘Rose Period’; shocking abstracts from his ‘Cubist Period’; and the ‘Classic Period’ as World War 1 broke out. But at each stage, the art was profound and empathetic.
Does this mean that, as a writer, if we can feel the deepest emotions of what we are writing at a certain time, the work will be more poignant? I think that is exactly what Pablo Picasso was telling the world.
If a writer or an artist does not have their emotions wholeheartedly invested in their art, then neither will the reader or the viewer.
Pablo Picasso knew of the complexity of creating a piece of art, but he also understood the simplicity of art. Upon passing a group of school kids in his old age Picasso remarked, “When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Rapheal, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.”
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May the wheels of creativity never stop turning.