The Hidden Habits of Genius by Craig Wright

Author:Craig Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Published: 2020-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

PABLO PICASSO, ANOTHER BRILLIANT POLYMATH, FAMOUSLY SAID, “I do not borrow, I steal!” And like the thieving fox, Picasso “stole” from everywhere, taking from seventeenth-century old masters as well as from the junkyard. He would combine an idea in his head with an image or object he saw to create something radically new. An old bicycle seat and handlebars might be combined with a childhood memory of a bullfight to form a modernist sculpture. Picasso’s mind was energized by external appropriation, and what he stole, he did not intend to return.

FIGURE 9.2: Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), a thunderbolt of modernism wrought in part by the artist’s exposure to African masks and in part by a new awareness of the art of Paul Cézanne (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Peter Barritt: Alamy Stock Photo

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