Picasso's subversive innovation

Some time ago, a buddy went to the Museum of Modern Art in new york, USA, and then saw Picasso's "avignon Girl", which is Picasso's masterpiece spanning the times. After coming back, some friends were chatting: Oh, Picasso painted really well. Several other people agreed that it was great.

For me, I'm a little bad. I played the role of a child in The Emperor's New Clothes, so I asked, "What are the good pictures of girls in avignon?" ? Aha, this guy said: bold brushwork, awesome modeling, color, etc ... I said if you choose a girl in reality, would you choose a girl from avignon? The elder brothers wanted to think, said no. ...

Yes, of the five girls in avignon, three are painted as ghosts, and the other two are barely human. It's ugly. Who would like such a girl in reality?

In reality, we often think that the works of masters are beautiful. The works painted by masters are not necessarily beautiful, but in fact, some things at that time gave us inspiration not in beauty itself.

First of all, let's look at the young girls in avignon, who painted a group of girls who sold themselves in the street at that time. As an artist at that time, Picasso was a man of high society, and he would not praise a class that sold its flesh. This is the first point.

Secondly, why do people have such misunderstandings? It may often be related to Picasso's personal life. Picasso had countless lovers in his life. There may be a little prejudice against artists here, such as Rodin's Many Lovers, Egon Schiele's Many Lovers, and so on. Many people think that this artist will have sex with models and so on. Of course, Picasso is a very nice person. Not only is his name so long, but there are countless lovers. There are six licensed wives and many children. He has 20,000 to 30,000 paintings, which is very "productive".

In fact, this group of artists is not as glamorous as everyone thinks, which is the first; Second, the occurrence of this situation has a certain relationship with the specific scene. Let me see, Picasso hooked up with a girl of 17 at the age of 44, married a girl of 22 at the age of 62, and married a girl of 35 at the age of 80. Later, when he was in his eighties, he got prostate cancer and had an operation. From then on, Picasso felt that the battlefield was on the canvas during the day and in bed at night. Since the action, this battlefield can only be on the canvas!

This is of course a joke, but how did this scene come about? Picasso said to the seventeen-year-old girl, I am Picasso. Come and model for me. There is a special scene between the model and the painter, that is, when you are painting, their eyes often look at each other. If you don't believe me, you can try it, because we also made an experiment specially for this matter, which is called fifteen seconds eye-to-eye experiment. What do you mean? It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. When you open both windows and the windows face each other, your eyeballs are not bad. It is inevitable that someone will turn over the window and become a thief. You can try if you don't believe me. If you look at a person of the opposite sex for fifteen seconds without laughter, then you are either red-faced or red-eyed, and some emotional things will happen.

In the internet circle, there is a chain of discrimination and contempt. Engineers who do integration discriminate against those who do C language, c++, c++ discriminate against those who do Java, and Java discriminates against those who do PHP. Finally, everyone collectively despises being an artist because artists don't understand technology. The artist just smiled. None of you have a girlfriend. This reflects a scene, because the window opposite you is a machine when you are developing a workflow or doing technology, and it can't open your inner window for you to jump in.

Why there are often some tidbits in the entertainment circle. This scene was created in heaven, so they looked at each other and stopped talking. Kissing and sex scenes are natural scenes, so they become emotional zones. No matter which circle, where the scene setting is particularly in line with the location where this kind of thing happened, it is bound to produce such a fragrant story.

Let's go back to Picasso's theme today. Since the master has painted so many works. Like girls in avignon, she is the originator of cubism, and her paintings are neither beautiful nor good-looking. What is its value? We are here today to ask Picasso why he is so awesome.

Back to Picasso's time. Picasso was only a teenager when he entered the field of fine arts, and he already showed his talent. 14 years old, his works are very mature in space sense and color shaping. But if you look forward, during the Renaissance, in the academic school, in the real scene, in front of Angel, Diu Lei and so on, there were many works of masters. When you see those works, you will find that it is very, very difficult to draw a lifetime's hard work with them.

Therefore, as a genius, Picasso did not choose the path chosen by ordinary people. Where did the cubism he chose, which is what we usually call cubism, come from? First of all, from the ideological field, cubism did not first appear in the field of painting, but first appeared in the field of ideology. It is said that Hegel put forward such a view when he was alive. Of course, we need to research the details, but it is Picasso's special contribution to realize it in the picture and turn it into a genre. Before Picasso, in the embryonic stage of cubism, there was a famous artist Cezanne. In his later years, he thought that everything could be reduced to geometric form, but this was only the embryonic stage of cubism.

After Picasso arrived, he made an innovation. He believes that the artist's perspective can be changed. For example, when an artist used to draw a model, I sat in this place and the model sat opposite, and I have been describing the model in this place. In the two-dimensional plane space, I am imitating a three-dimensional thing, which is inherited from traditional painting, including later impressionist landscape painting and so on. , but also respect the objective laws. But cubism opens up another possibility. For example, I look at girls' faces in this place. I drew half of it. Then I found that the lower part of my face looked better. I turned to the other side, drew a positive face and merged with him.

So sometimes you will see that the upper part of Picasso's painting will appear at a different angle from the lower part, and then you may turn around and see the back. If you go to see the girls in avignon, they are all scenes that you can't see from another perspective. Its greatest value lies in breaking the sense of space and system necessary for the original picture and rebuilding an order, which is dominated by artists. Don't underestimate this small breakthrough, this small breakthrough has opened a Pandora's box. In a plane space, it can combine various elements, which can be square, three-dimensional and from different perspectives. It opens up the possibility of imagination, so later we look at modernism, postmodernism and so on, and all kinds of schools and elements can enter the picture, which was not available before cubism.

The value of cubism. If we set a benchmark now, a few years ago, we watched a movie, Cameron's masterpiece Avatar. Before Avatar, all the movies we saw were two-dimensional, but Avatar gave us a subversion of watching. With virtual reality, augmented reality and other technologies that are particularly popular in the world, the perspective of human beings on the world is constantly changing, and this is its value. We are looking at it. If Picasso is regarded as an entrepreneur, he is an extremely clever entrepreneur. We can find him a benchmark, that is, modern Apple, Jobs. Jobs, when choosing his own entrepreneurial direction, there are always some amazing similarities in history. At that time, before he made a smart phone, Jobs didn't create it.

Both Nokia and Motorola have developed some smart phones here, but no one has put them on the market because the cost of training users is too high. But Jobs was different. He combined a mobile phone with a tablet to create a new interactive experience, which is no longer a traditional keyboard mobile phone. This has opened a mobile Internet era. This small improvement, looking back now, is not complicated, but it has spawned a completely different ecology. How many people now rely on Android and Apple systems to develop apps and start businesses? This is that he opened a new era and laid the foundation stone for more people.

This is his highest rank and a role in history. Back to Picasso, he successfully transformed cubism into a visual presentation that can be seen on a plane. At this point, his contribution to the whole visual change and ideological change later, including music, architecture, movies and so on. , all show the shadow of cubism, and everyone is constantly breaking up and reconstructing.

Guernica, this is a work depicting war. This work is really touching after reading it. It makes people feel that there is a shadow in the war and all kinds of emotions are there. He gathered many impossible factors, such as a crying mother with her child in her arms, a crying woman, a crying cow and a crying horse. Of course, these have their symbolic meanings. You can also see some broken limbs in the gap of the whole picture. Judging from the color composition, there is basically no color in the picture, which expresses a kind of pain. In this two-dimensional space, it is difficult for you to present so many things with similar plots in one picture.

In the whole process of artistic development, Picasso made pioneering work, and he chose a completely different trajectory from others. On this track, he is the rule-maker, and later generations continue to take root and sprout on his basis, and grow new things. This is the real value of Picasso's innovation.

Pay high tribute to entrepreneurs and innovators who are pioneering and enterprising in a certain field.