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A comment on Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90. Parent comment

Re:Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90 by yupper32 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:39PM (#31416600)
> you can categorize Picasso as a genius purely on his influence of other artists that follow him.

That's a dangerous game. You can surely think of plenty of counter examples here in history and modern times.

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Re:Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90 by Ensorceled on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:52PM (#31416723)
No, I can't. Can you provide some "dangerous" counter examples of artists who influenced other artists?
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Re:Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90 by airforce1 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:02PM (#31416827)
I think GP is pointing out that the ability to command a following or convince people to follow in your footsteps does not a genius make.

Brenton Harrison Tarrant commands a following and influenced a lot of copycats (his most recent disciple being the perpetrator of a certain shooting in Buffalo). So... can we categorize Tarrant as a genius purely on his influence of [others] that follow him?

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Re:Picasso's self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90 by Ensorceled on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @06:49PM (#31417172)
As much as I hate to trigger Godwin’s law here, but that is equivalent to saying Hitler was a problematic artist …
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