I can't be the only person who feels this way can I?
Who else honestly thinks Picasso is/was not as great as everyone makes him out to be?
When it came to anything realistic he was actually a very mediocre artist.
Take example one:
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/...11_picasso.jpg
Now it looks alright but if we really look at it, we can tell that the character's left arm (our right) is highly out of proportion and too long. It also looks as if the subject's shoulder is broke because of how awkwardly positioned it is. Also if you look at the eyes one seems almost lower than the other because of the way he drew the eye sockets. Another thing is there isn't much detail on the clothes. Over all, however, this would be one of my favorites of Picasso's realism.
Next:
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/...lo-Picasso.jpg
The eyes are completely out of proportion when compared to each other. While I understand he was trying to go for perspective it still didn't turn out very well. If you stare closely at the face there are a whole slew of things that could be critiqued. Such as the lips look too thin, and rather than be realistic the face looks like clay. Something else I notice is he seems to use two different styles, a very soft feel for the hands, and a very over all square feeling for the face.
Next:
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/...picasso264.jpg
Again we start off with the broken shoulders look, either he's slouching considerably or I have no idea. The faces are also very boring and have no emotion or expression to them. They seem, at least to me, very plain and lacking any sense of uniqueness. The tallest figure's right ankle (our left) seems awkwardly positioned in comparison to the knee. If we look at the second "younger" boy his hands are much to small for his body/head.
Finally:
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/...anne_bloch.jpg
Not much to say about this one, though I think it's one of his better works.
If we take a look at the head we'll notice that it seems to have an almost unnatural bump even if that's just the hair giving that illusion. I think he could have done a better job making it more obvious because it, at least to me, look proportionally awkward. For a female she looks overly manly, even for a portrait.
In any case I understand he was famous for his Cubism and "Modern art", but I feel it was sort of a cop out. Like the people who use the excuse "It's my style" for why their art is so piss poor. Not saying Picasso's was, but saying that how I personally see it. It very well could have just been something he enjoyed, many artist change their styles over time. Though again I can't see why he became the number one name in the art world to represent all art, including Fine Art which implies you have some sort of technical skill (and I suppose invoke some sort of feeling which I guess Picasso can skate by with.). Picasso is not something that'd I'd attribute as an artistic genius, he was only maybe a genius when it came to marketing himself and what his art is now identified/associated with. Personally I think Picasso had very little artistic merit other than his "artistic movement". Which is not to say it's a bad thing, but he was not a genius when it came to executing art, only when it came to the concept of how his art should be executed. Which in my opinion is completely debatable.
