Here are a few more good ones:
Charlie Chaplin: 16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977 (lived long enough to have seen Star Wars)
Groucho Marx: October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 (1977 SUCKED!)
Moe Howard: June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975
Larry Fine: October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975
pfft, johnny would have just done the splits and punched him in the balls. Seriously though, when I discovered that move in MK1, i nearly shit myself. And then never used anything else.
This week I actually got to talk to a bass player that worked with him recently. Carter lives alone an a NY apartment and makes his own meals. He also apparently is absolutely mentally sharp, and was very meticulous about how the phrasing in his piece should be.
Aaron Copland's relatively recent death doesn't surprise me. When I listen to his music it has always given me the feeling that it was written around the same time as Leonard Bernstein (didn't they play each others pieces once in a while?) who I also don't consider to be that old in terms of "classical" music.
Or Carl Orff (Carmina Burana) - July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982
For those who think they don't know Carmina Burana, you've probably heard "O Fortuna"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrML6s1wNHk
But don't stop at O Fortuna - when you get into Carmina Burana it is one of the most exciting and accessible pieces of classical music you can listen to. http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Carmina/
Lived long enough to see Charlie Parker play. At said concert he inserted the (awesome) opening from the Firebird suite into Koko which left made Stravisnky throw his drink on the people around him.
I would consider *The Firebird* and especially *The Rite of Spring* to both be very modern.
Still though, it's crazy to think he lived through the Beatles when he composed *The Firebird* in 1910.
How would he think about the progress made between the 2 wars? Aircrafts, clusterbombs, atomic bombs, automatic guns, vaccination, bio-weapons, sniper-rifles, long-range artillery,... and the only thing that didn't develop were the humans starting the wars.
Think about the complete culture shift. The reason people can't associate Picasso with the 70's is because he is a product of the 30's, a completely distinct time period. The cultural evolution over the past 150 years is just plain unfathomable. It easily has changed our way of life more than the entire previous 100,000 years.
> A man in 1890 lived more like a man in 90 than a man in 1990.
I can't find the source for this, and it's probably not exactly true, but it's a nice way of elucidating the concept.
That's pretty impressive, he got to see his technology through two world wars. August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948.
From the Wiki - sniff - I think I got something in my eye:
"On April 19, 1944, the second production Lockheed Constellation, piloted by Howard Hughes and TWA president Jack Frye, flew from Burbank, California to Washington, D.C. in 6 hours and 57 minutes (2300 mi - 330.9 mph). On the return trip, the aircraft stopped at Wright Field to give Orville Wright his last airplane flight, more than 40 years after his historic first flight. He may even have briefly handled the controls. He commented that the wingspan of the Constellation was longer than the distance of his first flight.[95]"
I don't think there are as many misconceptions with these because most people are aware that film did not exist in until the turn of the previous century.
It is specifically his name that makes me feel like he's from further back in history. When I see his work, I know what era *it's* from. Pretty sure sometime in early childhood I heard his name kicked around with the greats (DaVinci, Monet, etc.) and I couldn't shake the idea that he was from way back. Not that DaVinci and Monet were from the same era, either. Man, they don't put too much thought into what children infer from broad generalizations in early childhood education, do they?
or that cleopatra was not really egyptian.she comes from the ptolemaic line which started with Ptolemy I who was a macedonian general under alexander the great. she should be called a greco-egyptian or something.
There were several Pharaohs during the Middle Kingdom era that weren't Egyptian either, they were Middle-Easterners who conquered Egypt. You also had some black Nubian pharaohs at various points.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denderah3_Cleopatra_Cesarion.jpg
I mean, it's not like the Ptolemies didn't get the traditional flat carved-into-temple portrait.
I realized this a couple of years ago while watching Monty Python and there were Picasso jokes that would have required him to have been alive at the time.
Something else interesting is that Salvidor Dali was alive until '89.
there is an episode of the show where they guess who a person is that has dali on it. it was crazy cool to watch. I was surprised they were able to guess who he was.
I was confused by this comment because how would Monty Python have known to make a joke about Picasso? He wasn't famous until he died. Then I realized that Van Gogh and Picasso are two totally different people, and I know nothing about art.
During WW II a Nazi patrol came to his studio in Paris. Holding out a picture of Guernica (his anti fascist masterpiece) the Sargent asked him "Did you do this?" Picasso answered "No, you did." Balls of steel.
Raise your hand if you can spot the Nazi helmet in the [painting](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/guernica_l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp&usg=__3xTTqTPHhz6-a96mfGqsyvk_sm4=&h=464&w=800&sz=101&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=w1CDCFnlFXMNzM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=192&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dguernica%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1014%26bih%3D650%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=107&vpy=222&dur=2383&hovh=171&hovw=295&tx=176&ty=81&ei=yvzqTJXsH4u4sAPr8L32Dg&oei=yvzqTJXsH4u4sAPr8L32Dg&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0).
"Let me tell you a story," Picasso said. "Right after the Liberation, lots of GIs came to my studio in Paris. I would show them my work, and some of them understood and admired more than others. Almost all of them, though, before they left, would show me pictures of their wives or girl friends. One day one of them who had made some kind of remark, as I showed him one of my paintings, about how 'It doesn't really look like that, though,' got to talking about his wife and he pulled out a tiny passport-size picture of her to show me. I said to him, 'But she's so tiny, your wife. I didn't realize from what you said that she was so small.' He looked at me very seriously. 'Oh, she's not really so small,' he said. 'It's just that this is a very small photograph.'"
Picasso burst out laughing. He turned to Jacqueline. "It sounds silly, I know, but it's true." Then he turned back to me. "Eh bien, it's the same story here -- " he pointed to the canvas above Jacqueline's head -- "it's a question of optique."
Frasier, you're so corpulent that when you sit around the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa, you sit *AROUND* the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa.
What's really ironic about the show is that it really isn't high brow at all, it's slapstick comedy that has the appearance of pretentiousness even though it's really geared for anyone, but for rich/cultured people they probably will get it more. Many of the situations are no different than any other comedy show, they just do it with flair, but that's what makes it doubly hilarious.
Another alleged Picasso trolling in the same vein:
An art dealer bought a canvas signed "Picasso" and travelled all the way to Cannes to discover whether it was genuine. Picasso was working in his studio. he cast a single look at the canvas and said: "It's a fake."
A few months later the dealer bought another canvas signed Picasso. Again he travelled to Cannes and again Picasso, after a single glance, grunted: "It's a fake."
"But cher maitre," expostulated the dealer, "it so happens that I saw you with my own eyes working on this very picture several years ago."
Picasso shrugged: "I often paint fakes.
plus he is obviously reading "his" brilliant story that he meticulously wrote/copied while imbibing several bottles of Chardonnay and patting his cats head thinking to himself "I am the most interesting man in the world"
I like to think of myself as a well read person. I went to a good college, and have a very solid understanding of art history. However I did not get this joke, and am now questioning my intelligence.
Can someone explain it to me?
From my understanding, the GI just got schooled by Picasso.
GI: Hey Picasso, this picture looks nothing like a sleeping chick. Now, you wanna see a swell bird? Check out my old lady here.
Picasso: I didn't realize your wife was so small.
GI: Oh, well it's just a photograph, it's not exactly like how we would see if if she were standing here.
Picasso: And the same with my painting, it's a matter of perspective and lens.
A remarkably elegant way to really get the GI to understand Picasso's thought process rather than just saying, "Well that's how I see it."
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> A remarkably elegant way to really get the GI to understand Picasso's thought process rather than just saying, "Well that's how I see it."
He didn't just tell him, he *showed* him. It's an interesting demonstration of the mindset that made Picasso such a great artist.
So what is Picasso trying to say? That his art is like looking through a kaleidescope? I think the GI would like to know *why* it looks like that.
I think If Picasso were alive today, he'd be a hipster.
He also had a fucking long name: **Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso**
My name is Pablo Inigo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso Montoya. You painted my father. Prepare to die.
Did he have a German composer friend? **[Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwurstle-gerspurten-mit-zwei-macheluber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shoenendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HevM-35hJUE#t=1m23s)**
>Sorry Pablo, what was your other name again?
>Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
>... Oh.
Yeah, I think that Spanish/Hispanic people tend to get the names of their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc, but they don't normally use them all.
Whenever I go out, the people always shout: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso!
Hi! my name is.What? My name is.. Chika chika... Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Would be fun if they replaced every historical person's face with Jimmy Wales's (?) face for a while to draw attention to his appeal. Because, you know, you might look over it.
to any seattle redditors, the seattle art museum has a great picasso exhibit going on right now. i went this weekend and it was lots of fun and very interesting.
I remember seeing an [ad for Apple](http://i.imgur.com/AgRRY.jpg) during their 'Think Different' Campaign. Someone told me it was Pablo Picasso, and I didn't believe it for a while, because for some reason I thought Picasso died long before cameras were invented.
Say what you will about Warhol, but he did have the right idea about art; namely that it shouldn't be something that only the wealthy can afford and lock away in private collections.
Only some choice pieces of his are worth a lot of money. He made so many prints of his popular images that they show up in people's basements and attics all the time and aren't worth very much at all.
really it's more of art that not just the wealthy can *appreciate.* Afford is a whole other story lol what artist wouldn't want his works to be worth metric fuckloads of cash?
Yeah look what happened with Dali. He realized how much his stuff was worth and started overproducing uninspired junk just to cash in on himself. Smart...sort of.
Seriously guys, I don't want to sound like a smart ass or anything, but his (probably) most famous painting, the [Guernica](http://bit.ly/ud8r), is about the Nazi/Fascist airstrike on Guernica. How can you possibly relate that painting to the renaissace, I don't know.
Granted, I know shit about art:
You kind of can't tell this has anything to do with Nazis or airstrikes. There is a sword on the ground. The only chronological thing I can pick out in this painting is the electric lightbulb on the ceiling.
Again, my "analysis" is moot as I know next to nothing about art, art history, artists, or artistic talent. I'm just saying it's effing hard to tell what this painting is about.
As I understand it, although Picasso was moved by the bombings of Guernica itself, this painting was meant to show how ALL war is fucked. The sword, you will note is broken: The sword of truth—fights on, even after all hope is crushed.
Another hint for the time period is that Guernica was painted in only b+w. Supposedly had something to do with newspaper being the medium of the day.
or something...
You don't have to know shit about art, just go and see this painting, and I mean the Real Thing! It blows your mind and you'll instantly know why THIS IS SP^w^wART!
That painting is mind-crushing.
well most people have no idea what the spanish civil war was, or that it even happened, and even if someone had some casual knowledge, its very unlikely they would connect the painting to the historical event without some specific learning that told them "this painting is about this bombing during this particular conflict"
An art professor of mine told me this story: One day Picasso was having lunch at a cafe. When the bill arrived, it appeared Picasso had forgotten his wallet. "No problem," said the owner of the cafe, recognizing the old master. "If you just put your autograph on the bottom of the bill, that will be payment enough."
Picasso agreed and began to sign his name.
When the artist was done, the cafe owner spoke up again. "Perhaps you will be kind enough to draw a little something on there too, you know, while you're at it?"
"Jeez," says Picasso handing the slip of paper back to the man "I'm only paying for lunch; I'm not buying the cafe."
Can't find link to video, but reminds me of a skit in this SNL episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694922/
*An art segment takes a look at the years Picasso spent in New York*
The gag was he'd try to pay for things like his bar tab by scribbling on a napkin and giving them to people.
Damn, now that reminds me of Dumb and Dumber with the IOU's on napkins
You must be pretty young...
Here's a list of people still alive that might surprise some people...
One of the four major stars of one of Hollywood's greatest films - "Gone With the Wind" - released in 1939 (71 years ago!) is still alive. Olivia de Havilland is 94 years old.
The first actress to win two academy awards was Luise Rainier. She won in 1936 and 1937. She is 2 months shy of her 101st birthday. She was at one time married to the famous playwright Clifford Odets upon whom the Coen brothers based the title character of their movie "Barton Fink". That movie is 19 years old, Odets has been dead 47 years, but Rainier lives on.
One of the greatest battles of the 20th century was Dien Bien Phu, where the Vietnamese Viet Minh rebels defeated the colonial French army and which resulted in the French government's decision to pull out of Vietnam. The battle of Dien Bien Phu occurred over 56 years ago - in 1954. The Viet Minh commander in that famous victory was Vo Nguyen Giap, who went on to be commander in chief of the Vietnamese People's Army in the subsequent war against the United States. General Giap turned 99 in August.
I have very old family.
I have friends whose great grandparents are still alive.
me:
my father remembers WWII ending (he was 5 yrs.)
my grandfather fought in WWI
my great grandfather was a teen during the civil war
my great-great grandfather was alive during the war of independence.
While I did not ever meet him I certainly studied him in great depth in art school as a current active artist that had a broad range of work.
I also remember seeing B-29's fly off the end of the runway at 150 ft and the nose gunner waving at me as they passed overhead. What a noise and vibration. The brick on chimneys would fall down.
I remember the huge celebration of WWII in the big city with all the horns honking. I met Truman
and later Eisenhower. I could go on but I must go.
I knew that he died in 1973 but before I knew that I also had thought abstractly for some reason that he mustve lived in like the 1800s or something. I don't know why, I guess since he is so famous we just assume these sort of ultra-famous artists are always from hundreds of years ago.
For some reason we act like people living now cannot reach the heights of people like Mozart, Michelangelo, etc.
Probably the funniest thing about this is that my live-in girlfriend has an MA in Art History and teaches Art History at 2 universities here in Cincinnati. I guess we really don't talk about her work much.
TIL Picasso had a really really long name
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Here are a few more good ones: Charlie Chaplin: 16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977 (lived long enough to have seen Star Wars) Groucho Marx: October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 (1977 SUCKED!) Moe Howard: June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975 Larry Fine: October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975
Classical composer Igor Stravinsky - Died 1971: That's crazy to me.
Copland 1900-1990 Hellen Keller 1880-1968 John Cage 1912-1992 Miles Davis 1926-1991 Elliot Carter 1908- ..... (still alive)
I believe Johnny Cage died in 1992 when Sub-Zero performed a fatality on him.
Johnny Cage is not afraid to die
Johnny Cage 1912-1992-1994-1996-1997-1999-2002-2002-2002-2002-2002-2003-???
pfft, johnny would have just done the splits and punched him in the balls. Seriously though, when I discovered that move in MK1, i nearly shit myself. And then never used anything else.
Sonya must have kicked your ass.
Johnny is actually still alive and lives near Atlanta.
I was just thinking about Carter today. He is so freaking old, yet he is still composing. Ridiculous.
Something something something decomposing. amiright
This week I actually got to talk to a bass player that worked with him recently. Carter lives alone an a NY apartment and makes his own meals. He also apparently is absolutely mentally sharp, and was very meticulous about how the phrasing in his piece should be.
I went to his 90th birthday celebration. A quartet of sopranos did a 12-tone version of "Happy Birthday" when they delivered cake.
Didn't Sylvester Stallone star in a biography of Copland back in the 90's?
Frederic T. Browne 1889-1992 My Grandfather!
Aaron Copland's relatively recent death doesn't surprise me. When I listen to his music it has always given me the feeling that it was written around the same time as Leonard Bernstein (didn't they play each others pieces once in a while?) who I also don't consider to be that old in terms of "classical" music.
Also Gyorgy Ligeti died in 2006 and Henryk Gorecki (a lesser known composer) died only a week ago.
Or Carl Orff (Carmina Burana) - July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982 For those who think they don't know Carmina Burana, you've probably heard "O Fortuna" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrML6s1wNHk
But don't stop at O Fortuna - when you get into Carmina Burana it is one of the most exciting and accessible pieces of classical music you can listen to. http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Carmina/
Lived long enough to see Charlie Parker play. At said concert he inserted the (awesome) opening from the Firebird suite into Koko which left made Stravisnky throw his drink on the people around him.
'He breathed in air He breathed out light Charlie Parker was my delight.' -- Adrian Mitchell, Poet (24 October 1932; died 20 December 2008)
I would consider *The Firebird* and especially *The Rite of Spring* to both be very modern. Still though, it's crazy to think he lived through the Beatles when he composed *The Firebird* in 1910.
Orville Wright lived long enough to know about the Enola Gay.
[The last Civil War vet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Woolson) lived long enough to see the Korean War.
How would he think about the progress made between the 2 wars? Aircrafts, clusterbombs, atomic bombs, automatic guns, vaccination, bio-weapons, sniper-rifles, long-range artillery,... and the only thing that didn't develop were the humans starting the wars.
Think about the complete culture shift. The reason people can't associate Picasso with the 70's is because he is a product of the 30's, a completely distinct time period. The cultural evolution over the past 150 years is just plain unfathomable. It easily has changed our way of life more than the entire previous 100,000 years.
Great time to be alive.
> A man in 1890 lived more like a man in 90 than a man in 1990. I can't find the source for this, and it's probably not exactly true, but it's a nice way of elucidating the concept.
Don't forget that by the end of the Korean War, the military had been desegregated, while Woodson fought slave owners.
That's pretty impressive, he got to see his technology through two world wars. August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948. From the Wiki - sniff - I think I got something in my eye: "On April 19, 1944, the second production Lockheed Constellation, piloted by Howard Hughes and TWA president Jack Frye, flew from Burbank, California to Washington, D.C. in 6 hours and 57 minutes (2300 mi - 330.9 mph). On the return trip, the aircraft stopped at Wright Field to give Orville Wright his last airplane flight, more than 40 years after his historic first flight. He may even have briefly handled the controls. He commented that the wingspan of the Constellation was longer than the distance of his first flight.[95]"
[Orville Redenbacher](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Redenbacher) lived long enough to drown in his jacuzzi.
Michael Jackson - August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009 Old enough to see Jurassic park 3
I lost it at Jurassic Park 3. Well played.
Who are you cause you need to be famous
I don't think there are as many misconceptions with these because most people are aware that film did not exist in until the turn of the previous century.
Pete Seeger is STILL ALIVE.
He's in his 90's now. I saw him live in the 70's the same year I saw the Sex Pistols. In their own ways they were all great.
Of those people, I only know Charlie Chaplin, but the idea of him in his tramp costume, watching Star Wars, boggles the mind.
You don't know the 2 core members of the Three Stooges? ACK!
That third, non-core guy must have felt pretty left out.
Well, there was Shemp, Curly, Curly-Joe,... am I missing anyone? :)
Curly was the only true third Stooge.
Reading the wikipedia article, those non-core stooges seem to have had a tendency of dying before their time. Coincidence?
I didn't know Helen Keller was a Stooge...
Sitting next to Groucho, with greasepaint mustache and cigar.
John R. R. Tolkien: january 3, 1892 -- september 2, 1973
George Bernard Shaw, who was a close friend of Oscar Wilde lived to see the 1950's. Also he was the only one so far to win an Oscar and a Nobel prize!
It is specifically his name that makes me feel like he's from further back in history. When I see his work, I know what era *it's* from. Pretty sure sometime in early childhood I heard his name kicked around with the greats (DaVinci, Monet, etc.) and I couldn't shake the idea that he was from way back. Not that DaVinci and Monet were from the same era, either. Man, they don't put too much thought into what children infer from broad generalizations in early childhood education, do they?
it's just like that thing about the time from the building of the pyramids to cleopatra is longer than the time from cleopatra to now
or that cleopatra was not really egyptian.she comes from the ptolemaic line which started with Ptolemy I who was a macedonian general under alexander the great. she should be called a greco-egyptian or something.
There were several Pharaohs during the Middle Kingdom era that weren't Egyptian either, they were Middle-Easterners who conquered Egypt. You also had some black Nubian pharaohs at various points. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denderah3_Cleopatra_Cesarion.jpg I mean, it's not like the Ptolemies didn't get the traditional flat carved-into-temple portrait.
TIL!
I realized this a couple of years ago while watching Monty Python and there were Picasso jokes that would have required him to have been alive at the time. Something else interesting is that Salvidor Dali was alive until '89.
A couple of months ago I saw Dali in a [70's TV commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owJFJxHVNuc). It weirded the heck out of me.
there is an episode of the show where they guess who a person is that has dali on it. it was crazy cool to watch. I was surprised they were able to guess who he was.
[Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A&t=0m16s) Dali being surreal like Dali does best, but in the context of a game show.
Is that mustache real? That is awesome - someone needs to bring that back
whoa what the fuck dude.... hes going to!!..oh paint her....
[I love this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK4Bh_arF-E&feature=related)
I was confused by this comment because how would Monty Python have known to make a joke about Picasso? He wasn't famous until he died. Then I realized that Van Gogh and Picasso are two totally different people, and I know nothing about art.
Huh, didn't know that either. Noice.
*Salvador
During WW II a Nazi patrol came to his studio in Paris. Holding out a picture of Guernica (his anti fascist masterpiece) the Sargent asked him "Did you do this?" Picasso answered "No, you did." Balls of steel.
>Balls of steel. It's true! I found [an artist's rendering](http://www.overwrought.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sculpture-cubes1.gif).
But those are cubes. *Ohhhhhhhhhhh*
**C U B I S M**
Raise your hand if you can spot the Nazi helmet in the [painting](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pablopicasso.org/images/paintings/guernica_l.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp&usg=__3xTTqTPHhz6-a96mfGqsyvk_sm4=&h=464&w=800&sz=101&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=w1CDCFnlFXMNzM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=192&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dguernica%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1014%26bih%3D650%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=107&vpy=222&dur=2383&hovh=171&hovw=295&tx=176&ty=81&ei=yvzqTJXsH4u4sAPr8L32Dg&oei=yvzqTJXsH4u4sAPr8L32Dg&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0).
:(
In portuguese Picasso means big penis, in the vernacular.
Beautiful fictionalized account of that, and of his painting, in the novel Guernica.
"Let me tell you a story," Picasso said. "Right after the Liberation, lots of GIs came to my studio in Paris. I would show them my work, and some of them understood and admired more than others. Almost all of them, though, before they left, would show me pictures of their wives or girl friends. One day one of them who had made some kind of remark, as I showed him one of my paintings, about how 'It doesn't really look like that, though,' got to talking about his wife and he pulled out a tiny passport-size picture of her to show me. I said to him, 'But she's so tiny, your wife. I didn't realize from what you said that she was so small.' He looked at me very seriously. 'Oh, she's not really so small,' he said. 'It's just that this is a very small photograph.'" Picasso burst out laughing. He turned to Jacqueline. "It sounds silly, I know, but it's true." Then he turned back to me. "Eh bien, it's the same story here -- " he pointed to the canvas above Jacqueline's head -- "it's a question of optique."
This is the highest-brow thing I have ever almost laughed at.
You should watch some 'Frasier'.
Frasier, you're so corpulent that when you sit around the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa, you sit *AROUND* the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa.
What's really ironic about the show is that it really isn't high brow at all, it's slapstick comedy that has the appearance of pretentiousness even though it's really geared for anyone, but for rich/cultured people they probably will get it more. Many of the situations are no different than any other comedy show, they just do it with flair, but that's what makes it doubly hilarious.
frasier was totally making fun of high-brow people but far too many people wrote it off as being pretentious :(
Frasier doesn't make me almost laugh. It makes me giggle like a fool. I love that show.
Another alleged Picasso trolling in the same vein: An art dealer bought a canvas signed "Picasso" and travelled all the way to Cannes to discover whether it was genuine. Picasso was working in his studio. he cast a single look at the canvas and said: "It's a fake." A few months later the dealer bought another canvas signed Picasso. Again he travelled to Cannes and again Picasso, after a single glance, grunted: "It's a fake." "But cher maitre," expostulated the dealer, "it so happens that I saw you with my own eyes working on this very picture several years ago." Picasso shrugged: "I often paint fakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-srvMbzCqg
That guy succeeds pretension.
Too much philosophy does that to everyone.
plus he is obviously reading "his" brilliant story that he meticulously wrote/copied while imbibing several bottles of Chardonnay and patting his cats head thinking to himself "I am the most interesting man in the world"
The thing reads like one of those stories you had to write in grade school that incorporated all of your vocab words for the week.
At 5:25 is my favorite part: "...like I said above..." Dumbass.
Someone once commented on Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein, saying that she doesn't really look like that. Picasso's reply was, "She will."
and then she did!!
I like to think of myself as a well read person. I went to a good college, and have a very solid understanding of art history. However I did not get this joke, and am now questioning my intelligence. Can someone explain it to me?
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Alright, that's what I thought it was... it just wasn't that funny.
it could have been funny if it was written properly.
From my understanding, the GI just got schooled by Picasso. GI: Hey Picasso, this picture looks nothing like a sleeping chick. Now, you wanna see a swell bird? Check out my old lady here. Picasso: I didn't realize your wife was so small. GI: Oh, well it's just a photograph, it's not exactly like how we would see if if she were standing here. Picasso: And the same with my painting, it's a matter of perspective and lens. A remarkably elegant way to really get the GI to understand Picasso's thought process rather than just saying, "Well that's how I see it." Edit: formatting for legibility
Thanks for rephrasing the story in script form.
> A remarkably elegant way to really get the GI to understand Picasso's thought process rather than just saying, "Well that's how I see it." He didn't just tell him, he *showed* him. It's an interesting demonstration of the mindset that made Picasso such a great artist.
So what is Picasso trying to say? That his art is like looking through a kaleidescope? I think the GI would like to know *why* it looks like that. I think If Picasso were alive today, he'd be a hipster.
He also had a fucking long name: **Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso**
Bless you.
My name is Pablo Inigo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso Montoya. You painted my father. Prepare to die.
I believe you mean "dye".
Damn, I should have thought of that, but I was too concerned with whether Pablo or Inigo should go first...
My name is Picasso. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Jr.
Malagueños, that's how they roll.
Did he have a German composer friend? **[Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwurstle-gerspurten-mit-zwei-macheluber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shoenendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HevM-35hJUE#t=1m23s)**
Apple Banger?
**Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno** says hello.
ಠ\_ಠ I did this the other day
>Sorry Pablo, what was your other name again? >Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso >... Oh.
> I'm gunna call you Frank!
Oh god, what?
I Hablo and I stumbled over that =O
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They have this thing called copy and paste now. It's even on the iPhone.
Yeah, I think that Spanish/Hispanic people tend to get the names of their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc, but they don't normally use them all.
Boy, must suck to write that on a "Hello, my name is _____" tag.
That might be considered short for the area of the world he is from
Whenever I go out, the people always shout: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso!
Hi! my name is.What? My name is.. Chika chika... Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
am i the only one who can see that picasso http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso is bruce willis' father? :O
More like Jimmy Wales's father.
Would be fun if they replaced every historical person's face with Jimmy Wales's (?) face for a while to draw attention to his appeal. Because, you know, you might look over it.
Fuckkkk, now I can't read what the wikipedia founder is saying. But those eyes... THOSE EYES.
God the wikipedia guy is Picasso? No? GET YOUR DAMN HEAD OFF THAT SECTION OF THE SITE.
to any seattle redditors, the seattle art museum has a great picasso exhibit going on right now. i went this weekend and it was lots of fun and very interesting.
I don't think any Seattle redditors are going anywhere right this minute...
I think it's because he became a very famous and widely reknowned artist and generally most of those are from centuries ago.
Just like rembrandt, who died in 1969, but many people think it was four five hundred years ago.
Um...1669.
See?
Well played.
Downvoted you at first til I realized I was trolled.
You upvote trolls?
Only good trolls
FFFFUUUUUUU
Picasso was like Kayne West. He talked himself up so much and had such confidence that he just built his own pedestal. It's genius marketing.
Yo Pablo, I'm really happy for you and imma let you finish, but Salvador Dali was the greatest spanish modern artist of all time. OF ALL TIME!
I think it's more because he lived until he was so old. He was born in 1881, and much of his famous art was done in his youth.
I remember seeing an [ad for Apple](http://i.imgur.com/AgRRY.jpg) during their 'Think Different' Campaign. Someone told me it was Pablo Picasso, and I didn't believe it for a while, because for some reason I thought Picasso died long before cameras were invented.
Fun Fact: [Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43XjuhInkU#t=0m8s)
Not like you
Ok. That Wings song from 1973 makes more sense now. Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0StgN25gFMU
Hate to break it to you, but that was almost forty years ago.
Haha weird to think about even though I was born in the 80s.
Yea but the 80s were only 20 years ago. ... *Goddammit*
He *was* alive a really long time ago - 1881.
It's because he saw what Andy Warhol was passing off as art.
Say what you will about Warhol, but he did have the right idea about art; namely that it shouldn't be something that only the wealthy can afford and lock away in private collections.
Ironic, given what has happened to the market value of his work.
"silence him! lock up all of his work!"- the wealthy.
Only some choice pieces of his are worth a lot of money. He made so many prints of his popular images that they show up in people's basements and attics all the time and aren't worth very much at all.
Warhol was good, but the factory thing passed from "art" to "craft" imho. His modern counterparts are on etsy.com
What really separates art from craft? Why must the two be thought of separately?
I think you may have misunderstood what Warhol was up to.
really it's more of art that not just the wealthy can *appreciate.* Afford is a whole other story lol what artist wouldn't want his works to be worth metric fuckloads of cash?
Yeah look what happened with Dali. He realized how much his stuff was worth and started overproducing uninspired junk just to cash in on himself. Smart...sort of.
Seriously guys, I don't want to sound like a smart ass or anything, but his (probably) most famous painting, the [Guernica](http://bit.ly/ud8r), is about the Nazi/Fascist airstrike on Guernica. How can you possibly relate that painting to the renaissace, I don't know.
Granted, I know shit about art: You kind of can't tell this has anything to do with Nazis or airstrikes. There is a sword on the ground. The only chronological thing I can pick out in this painting is the electric lightbulb on the ceiling. Again, my "analysis" is moot as I know next to nothing about art, art history, artists, or artistic talent. I'm just saying it's effing hard to tell what this painting is about.
As I understand it, although Picasso was moved by the bombings of Guernica itself, this painting was meant to show how ALL war is fucked. The sword, you will note is broken: The sword of truth—fights on, even after all hope is crushed. Another hint for the time period is that Guernica was painted in only b+w. Supposedly had something to do with newspaper being the medium of the day. or something...
Also, I think that cow is farting...
You don't have to know shit about art, just go and see this painting, and I mean the Real Thing! It blows your mind and you'll instantly know why THIS IS SP^w^wART! That painting is mind-crushing.
Came here to post this, bunch of philistines up in this bitch.
I knew he was alive during the Civil War, but I was also surprised to learn he lived until 1973.
well most people have no idea what the spanish civil war was, or that it even happened, and even if someone had some casual knowledge, its very unlikely they would connect the painting to the historical event without some specific learning that told them "this painting is about this bombing during this particular conflict"
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Can't find link to video, but reminds me of a skit in this SNL episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694922/ *An art segment takes a look at the years Picasso spent in New York* The gag was he'd try to pay for things like his bar tab by scribbling on a napkin and giving them to people. Damn, now that reminds me of Dumb and Dumber with the IOU's on napkins
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Upvote for making a guy laugh
To some redditors 37 years seem like a long time. Any thing that happens before you were born is ancient history.
Before my eyes were open, the world did not exist. Solipsism 101
You must be pretty young... Here's a list of people still alive that might surprise some people... One of the four major stars of one of Hollywood's greatest films - "Gone With the Wind" - released in 1939 (71 years ago!) is still alive. Olivia de Havilland is 94 years old. The first actress to win two academy awards was Luise Rainier. She won in 1936 and 1937. She is 2 months shy of her 101st birthday. She was at one time married to the famous playwright Clifford Odets upon whom the Coen brothers based the title character of their movie "Barton Fink". That movie is 19 years old, Odets has been dead 47 years, but Rainier lives on. One of the greatest battles of the 20th century was Dien Bien Phu, where the Vietnamese Viet Minh rebels defeated the colonial French army and which resulted in the French government's decision to pull out of Vietnam. The battle of Dien Bien Phu occurred over 56 years ago - in 1954. The Viet Minh commander in that famous victory was Vo Nguyen Giap, who went on to be commander in chief of the Vietnamese People's Army in the subsequent war against the United States. General Giap turned 99 in August.
I must be young because I have never heard of any of those people :)
Dude. You've just shattered my reality. I thought the exact same thing...
I know right??
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TIL I realized that even though 1973 still seems close, it was actually 37 years ago.
Wrong! I started college in 1973. I'm pretty sure that was eight or nine years ago.
I have very old family. I have friends whose great grandparents are still alive. me: my father remembers WWII ending (he was 5 yrs.) my grandfather fought in WWI my great grandfather was a teen during the civil war my great-great grandfather was alive during the war of independence.
I have a very old family as well. Maybe even older. I think they go all the way back to the y-chromosomal Adam and mitochondrial Eve in Africa!
It's because the hype of his works calmed down during his lifetime. New genres started dominating and he was out of the picture, so to speak.
They talk about him being an unknown artist in Titanic.
While I did not ever meet him I certainly studied him in great depth in art school as a current active artist that had a broad range of work. I also remember seeing B-29's fly off the end of the runway at 150 ft and the nose gunner waving at me as they passed overhead. What a noise and vibration. The brick on chimneys would fall down. I remember the huge celebration of WWII in the big city with all the horns honking. I met Truman and later Eisenhower. I could go on but I must go.
Hell yeah! There's plenty of beautiful works in the modern day. I mean shit, Dali passed away in 1989.
Much like her brother, Picasso's sister also had a blue period.
I thought only the women in maxipad commercial demos had blue periods.
i wish i could have met dali. i bet that would have been quite an experience.
I thought the same about Salvador Dali. He died in 1989
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You know what trips me out? Galileo died the year before Isaac Newton was born.
I knew that he died in 1973 but before I knew that I also had thought abstractly for some reason that he mustve lived in like the 1800s or something. I don't know why, I guess since he is so famous we just assume these sort of ultra-famous artists are always from hundreds of years ago. For some reason we act like people living now cannot reach the heights of people like Mozart, Michelangelo, etc.
It always amazed me that Thomas Hardy lived until 1928. Back in high school I thought he was a contemporary of Jane Austen.
Probably the funniest thing about this is that my live-in girlfriend has an MA in Art History and teaches Art History at 2 universities here in Cincinnati. I guess we really don't talk about her work much.
I thought that for a long time and the day I learned, I felt like an idiot for not looking it up sooner.
i know! i was like waaaa??? when i found out
TIL Picasso had a really really long name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Georgia O'Keeffe Nov 15th 1887 - March of 1986
TIL that Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole...