• cdf12345@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So is the takeaway that he had some mental illness? Lots of dementia patients have the same trend in their art.

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      1 year ago

      i think the takeaway is that the post is a joke founded on the mistake of interpretting all of the portraits as directly representative, implying that, as an old man, picasso looked like a cubist nightmare in real life, when he actually probably just looked like an old human.