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After my brief glimpse of the Picasso exhibition, I sat in the Met's cafeteria. Before leaving home I wrote in my little notebook: "May 13, 2010 Thursday Afternoon a beauty. On the way to the Met to see the Picasso exhibition. Maybe I'll see something in his works that'll teach me something about life." Then, after a sandwich and the coffee that you see, I wrote, "Well. I shall come back to study!" That day was just a walk through-- I hope to learn more during my next visit when I plan to spend the entire day. Even that will be woefully inadequate to get a feeling for this genius. It was a thrill to be in the same room with the products of his hand, heart, soul, and mind. By the way, that coffee was one of the best I ever had-- probably in the top ten cups out of the many thousands I've had in this exposure to existence.
Incidentally, I understood that it was Picasso and Georges Braque that pioneered the Cubist movement, but I learned that the source, or the inspiration came from Cezanne! I never knew that and right now I don't understand how. That just belies my lack of knowledge based upon the vast accumulation of my artistic ignorance acquired through years of neglect. So that is one of my unanswered questions-- how did Cezanne inspire the Cubist movement?
I took several pictures that I've posted here. Here is no rhyme, no reason in why I took the pictures except that I liked what I saw. So my walk-through was brief, but I felt the breath of the Met's collection, and especially the energy of Picasso, a man who must have had a boundless will to work. Picasso also said, "Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." I like that quote. Picasso was one of the wittiest.
Picasso also said, "It is not what the artist does that counts. But what he is. Cezanne would never have interested me if he had lived and thought like Jacques-Emile Blanche, even if the apple he had painted had been ten times more beautiful. What interests us is the anxiety of Cezanne, the teaching of Cezanne, the anguish of Van Gogh, in short the inner drama of the man. The rest is false."
Source for much of the Picasso quotes: en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso [en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso]
For more information about the Picasso exhibition follow this link: metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp [metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp] ={cd70b3f0-d1b8-4501-9b63-085d213e0e9b}