"To Hell With Picasso"
Dear readers,I heard that Andrew Lloyd Webber had bought Picasso's "Portriat of Angel de Soto".He paid $29 millions for it.Andrew Lloyd Webber had made his fortune by writing tunes and ditties that reminds people of something they heard before,and he decided to share it with the most successful artist and con man of the century.
Angel was one of the two brothers whom Picasso sponged off in his penniless days.Angel was an idle fellow who pretend to paint but in fact did nothing but drink and brothel-creep.In Musee Picasso in Barcelona there are two portriats of Angel painted by Picasso one boozing in a cafe' and another engaging in mutual masturbation with a whore.
The portriat that Andrew Lloyd Webber bought is nothing but a clumsy daub with gruesome colouring, sloppy brush work and bad drawing.It is often said by experts that Picasso was a consummate draughtsman.There is nothing special about Picasso drawing even when he was trying hard,which he rarely did and the results were poor.
I have heard that a young lady artist who amused her friends by doing Picasso drawings with a pen attached to a sex-vibrator and called them"Prickassos".
The other thing you should know is the art market is governed not by quality but by rarity and hype,and the dealers had been milking Picasso paintings for years.Hence the high price is fetched.So paying $29 million for "Angel's daub tell us a lot about collecting mania and it has nothing to do with art.
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