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"Picasso" "Picasso"
by Jan Sand
2008-09-21 10:01:26
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Picasso, when seen
At paintings, between,
Was requested about his vocation.

 
The question was asked
For reasons unmasked
To discover his base motivation.

"I make, I am told",
He said, voice quite bold,
"A series that never ceases
Of many objects
In various ways.
Accepted the sum, masterpieces."

"All that I do
In periods blue
Or monuments sharp and cubic
Get admired by all
On the floor or the wall
Whether subjects are bland or pubic."

"I never distress
That I might make a mess,"
He said in a voice deep and basso.
"I'm a genius well known,
No faults to be shown
As long as I sign it Picasso"


  
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Emanuel Paparella2008-09-21 14:57:21
Some excerpts from Josh Tyrangiel essay “Andy was right”: Andy Warhol declared that "in the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes." He nailed it. Not only has his prophecy eclipsed his fame, but as a cultural observation, 15 minutes has had its 15 minutes…..There's something admirable and uniquely American in the act of self-creation— but it helps if you actually create something. In a conceptual artist, cultivating emptiness falls within the acceptable bounds of shtick. (Even Warhol's originals were reproductions.) But Warhol also put his blankness behind a series of conspicuous velvet ropes, turning a democratic notion— we're all stars, or at least we all could be— into something slightly toxic…YouTube and MySpace and all the other Web 2.0 tools out there haven't eliminated exclusivity or narcissism. You've still got to think you're pretty damned interesting to post a video of yourself talking to a computer screen in your bedroom. But they have changed the way the fame game is played...YouTube is Pop art in a form far closer to Warhol's original, uncorrupted vision than he could ever have imagined. And 15 minutes has been replaced by a new prophecy: "On the Web, everyone is famous to 15 people." Appropriately enough, many people share authorship of that one.


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