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I think you're confusing him with McCasso, the famous Weegie (piss) artist.

RF

well, neither live in scotland, there is that.

>>Anyone else ever get a suggestion, an intuitive, perhaps not even consciously realised, sense that Picasso was sorta Scottish in a Sean Connery way even...?

Picasho?

*chuckle* and the effect of poorly fitting dentures on the spanish lisp would be?

Spanish lisp has nothing to do with dentures. It is a trait of Andaluz, a southern dialect.

So the Urban Legend isn't true? That it's in imitation of a member of the nobility and spread around the court.

He means actually the reverse of lisping, seseo.

lisp: cecear
?: sesear.

and the legeng, in part, is true about seseo, not about ceceo

mar. i never said otherwise. i used the word 'effect', not 'cause'.

ok, never mind.

I fremember a poem by (Ovid? Catullus?) about a general with a lisp. My Latin teacher quoted 'Monty Python's Life Of Brian': 'Welease Woger!'

It was quite subversive of him, given that our headmaster, a Canon, had tried to get it banned from our local cimema.

I think that you may find this interesting:

It was written* by a Cuban geographer, lover of cigars.


"It's 23:15 in the night on 25th October 1881. A child is born, a few minutes later the midwife says it is death. Among the attendant to the sad scene, there is a doctor, brother of the baby's father. The doctor comes closer to the baby, and absorbs a few mouthfuls from his cuban cigar. He expels the smoke towards the nose of the baby, he repeats the dosis. Minutes after, the stimulant power of tobacco makes the litle body move. Picasso is born."



* and spoiled with my translation

That kinda rings a bell.

shouldn't you be maintaining the picasso thread ed?



oh. this is the picasso thread.

Like I said...Picasso was always going off on tangents.

Seriously, though - I see him as a summation of art...

That's a bit strong... a bit euro-chauvinist, unless you're anthropolog-ificating your summation of art into a self-mythologizing thief with a silly moustache. Then it's pretty good.

[] [] Balls to Picasso

>>That's a bit strong... a bit euro-chauvinist

And that's a knee-jerk reaction. I can assure you...I've considered the non-European traditions.

Frig sample...in some traditions - eg West African Ritual Art we see that te Artefact is not central. The creative process and the pale of the artefact withib a living culture are just as important. We see this in Picasso also, don't we?

>> ...summation of art into a self-mythologizing thief with a silly moustache... <<

Yeah that might explain the Sean Connery connection. Ta!

~jwf~

PS:
Actually, it might be more precise to consider the mildy contemptuous sneers that passed for smiles beneath their moustaches. I have seen this look regularly on both their faces and to my discerning eye it reveals an arrogance to which both are, in my humble opinion, well justified.

~jwf~

Here's me, back from Barcelona (and another, mini, Search for Art) only to find that about nine dots was the limit. Ho hum.