Picasso: “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”

Picasso

In the Mind of Great Artists

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“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Picasso.

 

In his stage of maturity, Picasso’s painting has such a personal characteristic that some called it the “Picasso style”: it is dissociation.

There is no unique point of reference. Frontal and profile views are shown simultaneously, and the objects or different parts of the body appear scattered (dissociated). In general, everything is represented by means of simplifications typical of a child’s drawing.

And why do we marvel when observing a painting of the mature Picasso, the genius of the first part of the 19th century or the drawing of a child?

Because a child is a creative genius by nature. Their way to see or interpret the world is crazy, wonderful. But they should receive “teachings” to fit the world where they should survive. They are told how the world is and their creative view of the world is cut.

Picasso said once: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

 

Image: The Yellow Jersey (1939)

 

Recommended links:

Picasso and Dissociation.

Timeline: Picasso Over Time.

Fundamental Paintings to Understand the History of Painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso.

The Touch of Picasso.

Fundamental Differences between Analytic and Synthetic Cubism.

The series of Picasso that continues the Guernica.

Guernica.

Blue Picasso.

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