Mais oui! C'est Gauloises! Only real men smoke these and French inhale as well. Picasso, Orwell, Sarte, and Bond, James Bond. I've tried 'em. I think lung cancer may still be in my future from these things and I haven't touched one for 20 years. Potent stuff!

This is great! I'm reading his stand up book right now. Genius. If you ever get a chance to see his play about elvis and picasso, see it it's hilarious.

hi-five, dystopian, for actually interesting me enough to look up the dictionary definition of the word "art"

art1
–noun
1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

so by this definition, the video of the crying brittany spears guy is not "art" and neither is this video. no upvote for you.

but then, to play devils advocate, the definition itself is very vague, based on the differences of human beings themselves. what is art? is art simply someone doing something they love to the best of their ability? if picasso was having a shitty day and made an equally shitty painting, is it still art? if i paint a POS better than anything i've ever done before, is it as much a piece of art as the mona lisa?

i think artwork is too abstract to even have a definition. but hey, this is the inter-butts, im sure theres someone out there who can (and will) correct me.

(and i also giggled a little at the video. there i said it.)

^Unless by "better" you mean "more famous." Because than Hendrix and Picasso would be way better.

Are people bitchin that SRV is not as good as Hendrix?

That is like say Picasso is better than Mattese. Don't be ridiculous.

Actually, it's called photorealism because it mimics reality like a photo, and it can be done in real life, however, in this case, he's likely to be using a photo. Nevertheless, it's quite good and his finished composition is probably much more interesting than the photo he got the imagery from. There's more thought involved in it than just copying.

Besides, being able to accurately represent something is an important stepping stone to finding ones style. Even Picasso actually knew how to draw and had his realist period.

There was an excellent article written about this very idea in Harper's by Garret Keizer titled Specific Suggestion: General Strike, quote:

"Of all the various depredations of the Bush regime, none has been so thorough as its plundering of hope. Iraq will recover sooner. What was supposed to have been the crux of our foreign policy—a shock-and-awe tutorial on the utter futility of any opposition to the whims of American power—has achieved its greatest and perhaps its only lasting success in the American soul. You will want to cite the exceptions, the lunch-hour protests against the war, the dinner-party ejaculations of dissent, though you might also want to ask what substantive difference they bear to grousing about the weather or even to raging against the dying of the light—that is, to any ritualized complaint against forces universally acknowledged as unalterable. Bush is no longer the name of a president so much as the abbreviation of a proverb, something between Murphy’s Law and tomorrow’s fatal inducement to drink and be merry today.

If someone were to suggest, for example, that we begin a general strike on Election Day, November 6, 2007, for the sole purpose of removing this regime from power, how readily and with what well-practiced assurance would you find yourself producing the words “It won’t do any good”? Plausible and even courageous in the mouth of a patient who knows he’s going to die, the sentiment fits equally well in the heart of a citizen-ry that believes it is already dead.

Any strike, whether it happens in a factory, a nation, or a marriage, amounts to a reaffirmation of consent. The strikers remind their overlords—and, equally important, themselves—that the seemingly perpetual machinery of daily life has an off switch as well as an on. Camus said that the one serious question of philosophy is whether or not to commit suicide; the one serious question of political philosophy is whether or not to get out of bed. Silly as it may have seemed at the time, John and Yoko’s famous stunt was based on a profound observation. Instant karma is not so instant—we ratify it day by day.

The stream of commuters heading into the city, the caravan of tractor-trailers pulling out of the rest stop into the dawn’s early light, speak a deep-throated Yes to the sum total of what’s going on in our collective life. The poet Richard Wilbur writes of the “ripped mouse” that “cries Concordance” in the talons of the owl; we too cry our daily assent in the grip of the prevailing order— except in those notable instances when, like a donkey or a Buddha, we refuse to budge.

The question we need to ask ourselves at this moment is what further provocations we require to justify digging in our heels. To put the question more pointedly: Are we willing to wait until the next presidential election, or for some interim congressional conversion experience, knowing that if we do wait, hundreds of our sons and daughters will be needlessly destroyed? Another poet, César Vallejo, framed the question like this:

A man shivers with cold, coughs, spits up blood.
Will it ever be fitting to allude to my inner soul? . . .
A cripple sleeps with one foot on his shoulder.
Shall I later on talk about Picasso, of all people?

A young man goes to Walter Reed without a face. Shall I make an appointment with my barber? A female prisoner is sodomized at Abu Ghraib. Shall I send a check to the Clinton campaign? "

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.....

Gentlemen, please: there is more to "art" than Michelangelo and Picasso. This may not be very refined or sophisticated, but it is an original and (in my opinion) pretty cool idea.

And as Eklek mentioned, if you haven't yet watched American Beauty, it contains a very beautiful example of plastic bag art. As well as just being one of my most favourite movies of all time.

Here's a list of some of the artists and their paintings:

Leonardo gives Vinci: The Gioconda
Marcel Duchamp: Naked lowering stairs, L.H.O.O.Q.
Van Gogh: Picture of Patience Escalier, the Starred Night, Self-portrait
PAUL Gauguin: Self-portrait, Spirit of the death
Henri Matisse: Self-portrait
Edvard Munch: Grito
Oskar Kokoschka: The fiancèe of the wind
Picasso: Self-portrait, the great swimmer, Arlequin, Picture of Gertrude Stein
Gray Joan:
Joan Watched:
Frida Kahlo: Self-portrait
Diego Rivera: Self-portrait
Diego Vela'zquez: Picture of the Pope Innocent X
Salvador Dalí: Self-portrait
René Magritte: The collective invention, The Rape, False Mirror.
Paul Klee: Self-portrait
Francis Bacon: Self-portrait, Study after the Picture of the Pope Innocent X of Vela'zquez, Three for Studies Figures AT the Base of to Crucifixion
Andy Warhol: Marilyn Monroe Diptych, Shot Orange Marilyn
Wassily Kandinsky:
Willem de Kooning:
Marc Chagall: I and the Village
Gustav Klimt:
Max Ernst: Ubu Imperator
Roy Lichtenstein: To turn around

Ignored? Maybe by the people watching the video. I notice it got massively sped up when people started tossing coin so you wouldn't see it. At the end, there was like 5 people listening, one even knew him.

I agree with the picasso on the on ramp idea. Try this again in a park or beside a Starbucks, he'd be mobbed like a rock star...

I bet if you put a picasso on an onramp of the freeway they would drive past too. This is a stupid premise for a video, people have lives.

the list from youtube...

Leonardo Da Vinci,
Raphael,
Titian,
Botticelli,
Boltraffio,
Albrecht Durer,
Lucas Cranach the Elder,
Messina, Perugino,
Hans Memling,
El Greco,
Hans Holbein,
Rokotov,
Peter Paul Rubens,
Gobert,
Caspar Netscher,
Pierre Mignard,
Jean-Marc Nattier,
Vigee-Le Brun,
Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Winterhalter,
Tyranov,
Borovikovsky,
Venetsianov,
Gros,
Kiprensky,
Amalie,
Corot,
Edouard Manet,
Flatour,
Ingres,
Wontner,
Bouguereau,
Comerre,
Leighton,
Blaas,
Renoir,
Millias,
Duveneck,
Cassatt,
Weir,
Zorn,
Mucha,
Paul Gaugan,
Henri Matisse,
Picabia,
Gustav Klimt,
Hawkins,
Magritte,
Salvador Dali,
Malevich,
Merrild,
Modigliani,
Pablo Picasso

Wish ida made this....my sentiments exactly.....
"What the fuck was that?" Mayor of Hiroshima

"Thats not a real fucking gun." John Lennon

"Who's gonna fucking find out?" Richard Nixon

"Heads are going to fucking roll." Anne Boleyn

"What fucking map?" Mark Thatcher

"Any fucking idiot could understand that."Albert Einstein

"It does so fucking look like her!" Picasso

"How the fuck did you work that out?" Pythagoras

"You want what on the fucking ceiling?" Michaelangelo

"Fuck a duck." Walt Disney

"Why?- Because its fucking there!" Edmund Hilary

"I don't suppose its gonna fucking rain?" Joan of Arc

"Scattered fucking showers my ass." Noah

"Let the fucking woman drive."
Commander of Space Shuttle "Challenger"

"Where did all these fucking Indians come from?"
General Custer

"Where the fuck is all this water coming from?"
Captain of the Titanic

"I need this parade like I need a fucking hole in my head."
John F. Kennedy

I actually really like how Picasso is totally absent from the movie, although that bugged me the first few times I watched it. Also I find it interesting that the forms *start* more realistic and get cubized later. I would not have guessed that he painted that way.

One of my tasks when taking an advanced Adobe Illustrator class was to re-create a portion of Guernica. It was definitely not easy but I learned a lot about illustrator in the process.