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1. Steve
   January 16th, 2007 at 12:40 am

   Looks like I just watched the time lapse of a toddler finger painting a man getting gored by a bull.

2. Joe
   January 16th, 2007 at 12:54 am

   i was transfixed, i don’t know what steve was watching, or maybe he just doesn’t “get” art.

3. kuroashi
   January 16th, 2007 at 1:35 am

   The progression up to 1:30 is fun, and everything afterthat is… Picasso-esque. Cool. You wonder what he was thinking when he goes back and changes an angle of an arm or the color or shade of a surface.

   The same might go for a toddler, I don’t know any toddlers that paint though.

4. Bryan
   January 16th, 2007 at 2:14 am

   Yes it was mesmerizing. The most amazing part was how the detailed, realistic bull suddenly became twisted and abstract. Never knew that’s how he worked.

5. Detlef
   January 16th, 2007 at 8:06 am

   About the 1:27 mark I thought it was a good painting, then everything started to get abstracted and then it became even better. Guess that’s what makes him Picasso. The intermediate painting would have been forgotten in time, but the finished product is remarkable. I agree with Bryan, I had no idea he started in such a “normal” way and then twisted it. I would love to see the process behind all famous paintings like this. It is very illuminating.

6. yayo
   January 16th, 2007 at 11:32 am

   I don’t like the theme but that was cool!

   I can’t handle it, there must be a reason for every single line on Las Meninas studies by picasso, and there are docens of tryals on the Velazquez’s picture. He was obsessed by that portrait.

   http://www.ctv.es/USERS/ags/000015pi.htm

7. Aramax
   January 16th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

   I never understood Picasso paintings and now it seems like he could never decide what he was going to do… random stuff over random stuff and he gives an explination for everything.

   Picasso true tallent was charisma if he could brainwash so many peoples to come to the conclusion that what he was doing was art.

   Maybe it’s just me…

8. PeaceLove
   January 16th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

   Yeah, it’s just you.

9. ted
   January 16th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

   Yeah, I’d agree.

   We tend to forget that a lot of impressionist and abstract artists did know how to paint quite realistically, but deliberately painted differently from the traditional method.

   I may not like all of Picasso’s work, but he certainly knew how to paint. This was definitely a look into how the painting developed, and how the artist’s own vision changed over the course of the painting.

   Cool.

10. norm
    January 16th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    Awesome clip for art teachers! I’ve never seen this before. Artists often ‘pre-visualize’ the idea of their image before painting. As Picasso progresses through the painting, I’m surprised at the number of alterations he makes! Is he working by trial and error, for visual impact, or subconscious feeling? Fantastic!

11. mei fang
    January 17th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    Absolutly beautiful. It is clear that ‘Steve’ really doesn’t appreciate art. I never knew picasso would alter his ideas so frequently, yet is is so beautiful how he does so. Awsome stuff! I have to admit, picasso is not one of my favourite artists, but I admire the way he paints. Its amazing. Im a budding artist/animator myself ^_^

12. dan
    January 17th, 2007 at 4:44 pm

    There are a whole slew of these things floating around YouTube. Picasso, in my mind, was an undisputed master, and the thing to remember here is that his working process was always different. Sometimes it was a straight shot to a finished painting, and sometimes he would just keep tweaking it until he was satisfied.

    I’m paraphrasing, but my favorite quote of his goes something like, “I paint like the Chinese. I don’t copy nature - I work like her.”

13. trav
    January 18th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    hmmm, seems like he took a realistic 3-d depiction of a feature on an object, then brought it through the object in 2-d but splayed it out in a novel angle. like the two eyes, flounder-style, or the crazy horns. wacky boy.

14. sandor
    January 19th, 2007 at 12:55 am

    Art should generate itself..the way a tree grows….The big jump made in Modern Art is to not imitate or duplicate reality, but to emulate it.

15. mEE
    January 30th, 2007 at 7:26 am

    wow…such a cool painting=]nice…
    hahas…it is so realistic…and really lyk cubism…
    amaZinG!!

16. solojony
    March 14th, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Aramax: “I never understood Picasso paintings and now it seems like he could never decide what he was going to do… random stuff over random stuff and he gives an explination for everything.”

    He is an artist, not an engineer. He is expressing himself, not building a thing. He solved the problem of expressing something that cannot be painted of photographied, you just look for a representation of a reality, when you should look a picture, like you listen to music.

    Good luck getting your mind out of the cage.

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