Picasso or Dali?
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Topic: Picasso or Dali?
Posted By: WaywardSon
Subject: Picasso or Dali?
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 11:56
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I was thinking how different these two artists are.
Also, I had a thought..
I like Neo, Prog Metal, Hard Rock and some Symph and Art Rock, and I prefer Dali.
Maybe those who like other genres (Kraut, Electronic etc) prefer Picasso?
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 12:34
| I don't really know anything about art, but based on what I've seen I definitely choose Dali. |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 14:51
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I like prog-metal, post-rock, and experimental music, but I prefer Dali. He has been my favorite artist ever since i can remember liking art.
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 14:53
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Salvador Dali, easily. ------------- 
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Posted By: Psychedelia
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 15:51
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i love Dali he is my favourite artist ever ------------- Another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 16:01
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Dali all the way
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 16:20
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 16:22
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Dali. He perfectly illustrates where my mind is all the time. -------------  
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Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 16:59
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 18:05
I may be the only one but I prefer Picasso. This guy has done everything and has improved everything. I study history of arts at school and there's no doubt Picasso is a genius.  -------------  
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Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 18:09
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Salvador Dalí. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 18:11
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Dali, though my favorite artist is Renč Magritte. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: June 11 2006 at 19:08
 < what is that thing is it human? Well i vote Dali he is the king! How can you not love a guy who has feelers?  ------------- 
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 07:12
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Salvador Dali.
Although Picasso has birthday on the 25th of October.
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 07:51
| Picasso. Though Dali may be the more obvious "prog" choice! |
Posted By: OrionCrystalIce
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 08:00
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Wow, surprising to see so many Dali fans here (as opposed to Picasso that is). To repeat the (now) cliche... my favorite painter, indeed. The very best reference book you can get is the thick black one with gold print on the front, simply titled "Dali". Has EVERYTHING, and mostly in acceptable size. ------------- black star, white light 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 09:10
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Picasso! Don't like Dali. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 09:22
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Viajero Astral wrote:Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 11:47
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Picasso by a mile, simply because he invented many of the techniques
that are quite common among artists today. Many may think Picasso
could not paint because of the way he distorts shapes sometimes; I
advise them to have a look at the drawing of "Don Quijote and Sancho
Pansa"; you couldn't have drawn it any better, nor with less lines. Dali was a charlatan. One genius of a charlatan, but a charlatan nevertheless. Of course his paintings are often so-called "surrealistic" (though the Surrealists themselves kicked him out pretty soon), which has a lot of appeal among proggers. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 13:21
C'EST NE PAS UN PIPE!  -------------
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 13:40
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Pablo Picasso - there's really no comparison. Dali's technique was deeply conservative and rooted in the 19th century fantasy painting style. While he waqs unquestiobably a master draughtsman, the innnovations of the 20th century largely passed him by. He also worked hard to ingratiate himself with Franco's fascist regime.
Picasso had earned his place in art history even before cubism - his blue and rose periods (1900 - 06) show that he was capable of painting in a straightforward representational style like a master even in his early 20s. Throughout his life he produced drawings, etchings and occasionally paintings which returned to a straightforward representational style (his return to classicism after World War 1 was a rare mis-step in 7 decades of work) - whatever a Picasso artwork looked like, it looked exactly as he wanted it to look. Unlike Dali he remained firm in his opposition to Franco, and refused to return to Spain while the regime remained in power. He became honorary curator of the Prado, but sadly was never to return to see the works which had fired his youthful imagination.
Mind you, Dali's biography is more interesting (the Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson is well worth reading), although Picasso was a pretty colourful character himself. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Peace Frog
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 13:57
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Dali has somewhat more interesting art. But Picasso was more innovative and, really, he was better. But I still like Dali's art just slightly more. ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 14:16
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Once I viewed an exhibition of Picasso's paintings I gained a whole new respect for the artist. His works reached out and grabbed me like few ever have. Dali was more dreamlike to me. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 18:12
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Bosch ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 18:21
No....it's true! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Kord
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 15:19
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Dali...great ------------- [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Genesis_Group.jpg" border"> |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 17 2006 at 13:49
CECI N'EST PAS UNE PIPE! -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 17 2006 at 14:30
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: June 17 2006 at 19:41
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I should have been a bit more specific, I meant their art, not them as a person.
I could say Neil Young is a better guitarist than Ritchie Blackmore because Blackmore is moody.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: June 17 2006 at 19:43
Classic painting, very clever!!  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 03:43
Difficult to dissociate the man from his work
Dali tried his hardest to act eccentric and get public notice, Picasso almost lived as a recluse in his last three decades
I still like Dali (he was also diddling in sculpture), but he does not comůe to Picasso's shoulder.
Picasso started cubism and abstract and was a precurssor , the others followed ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 07:24
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I don't care to much on who was first with what, but I still choose
Picasso. Although surrealism (and dadaism) is much closer to my heart
and taste, than cubism. Picasso made interesting art his whole life. Dali was relevant only for a few years (late 20's early 30's). Very soon he turned in to self-paroding and kitsch. I much prefer Max Ernst and Rene Magritte and the rest. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 07:45
Meret Oppenheim is a slightly forgotten surrealist:  These objects are both from '36. Quirky sculptures. looks more modern than most modern art.  Meret Oppenheim photographed by Man Ray. This one is very famous. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 09:15
I quite agree with all that. As a matter of fact, neither are included among my all-time favourite artists (the list would be too long to post here), but Picasso definitely has the edge. However, as a purely Cubist painter I prefer Braque to Picasso. On the other hand, I've always found Dali garish and contrived, not too mention commercial. Do you know that a favorite nickname (and anagram of his name) for him was Avida Dollars? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 09:25
I am not sure whether Vasarelli can be considered cubism, but I like his work also
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Wow , I had never heard that one , but it sure fits his cupidityPosted By: el böthy
Date Posted: June 20 2006 at 18:25
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For me its Dali also (favorite of mine), but I dont think people really know Picasso that well. He is very known for his cubism...but the man has truly done everything, and everything he has done is excellent! And as Baldie said, for thouse who think Picasso could not draw well...you got another thing comming!
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: June 22 2006 at 02:42
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Definitely Picasso for me.........Dali had a fertile and somewhat complex imagination for subject matter, but Pablo was tatally more prog as an artist, he pushed boundries so far that thanks to him they don't exist in art today.
Picasso rocks big time! |