It may be even worse with painting.
How many people say that "their 5yo kid can paint like Picasso" when at
14yo Picasso painted like Velásquez ?
Why don't school teachers and public TVs explain that cubism shows
objects (or models) as they are and not as they seem ?
It's really like a planisphere: how to represent a spherical earth on a
flat map ? Picasso applied the same principles to the objects and people
we see around us every day.
While we see a person's profile with one eye, one ear, one nostril, this
person (the model) feels themselves as having a body with two eyes, ears
and nostrils - and Picasso shows us both representations in one picture
- and that's brilliant ! The object is another subject, an alter ego or,
as Husserl named it in more technical terms, an objective transcendance
(with an "a", see wiki: Kant).
But the mass media, that now include the public "education" system of
the Western countries, is meant to create illiterate consuming zombies,
certainly not free citizens and persons capable of thinking and
appreciating greatness by themselves.
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« Les mots qui vont surgir savent de nous des choses que nous ignorons
d'eux. »
René Char