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georges braque

that's exactly right. An artist is always concerned to go forward and there would have been no point in re-hashing what loads of other people had been doing for centuries. Picasso follows pretty much directly on from post-impressionism, particularly Cezanne. Nobody comes from nowhere and what lots of people don't realise is that Picasso was extremely respectful of the tradition: his work is completely informed by the past. He would just take stuff and re-do it as he saw fit: one of his most famous (and most controversial) paintings, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was effectively a re-make of an Ingres piece from the 18th century of women in a Turkish Bath.

Funny thing this Asperger's isn't it? I used to think I was just interested in Picasso, now I realise it was an 'obsession'!

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Kandinsky's view was that art is like music - nobody expects an orchestral work to be 'about' anything or to portray aspects of the world in a representational way, it just is and we respond to it emotionally, intellectually or whatever. He saw painting in exactly the same way: colours and shapes and the way they were chosen and combined was what art was about. Fair point in my view. Notwithstanding my Picasso thing I've pretty much favoured abstract art over the years. I find meaning and representation very claustrophobic in a painting.