Today in History: Pablo Picasso's painting, the "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art on this day in 2007. The portrait is valued at $50 million. I find this painting, like many of Picasso's other works, to be hideous. Art should be beautiful. I shouldn’t have to know anything about the piece of work to find it beautiful. I shouldn’t require a degree in art to find any particular artwork beautiful or inspiring. Picasso's art is a distortion of beauty and reality.
The art world is elitist and snobbish. Consider: "Recently, a study shown that, at classical music competitions, judges seem to evaluate more based on the package in which music is delivered, rather than the music itself. Prior to that, it was revealed that judges of abstract art don't guess so well which paintings were made by human artists, and which by monkeys. Wine tasters prefer French wines over Californian, unless the tasting is blind."~Cristi Stoica
The best way to explain abstract art lies in the story of the Emperor's New Clothes. Something is widely accepted as something it isn't, due to an unwillingness of the general population to criticize it or be seen as going against popular opinion.
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