Picassos Guitars, Radical Creative Thinking

Picasso's Guitars,

Fashion Institute of Technology

April 5, 2016

April 5, 2016

Radical Creative

Thinking

“Picasso seems to be actually more

inventive in sculpture than in painting.”

Richard Serra

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

Pablo Picasso

Cezanne, a painter who not

only painted what he saw,

he painted how he saw.

Unlike his paintings, there isn’t any

air in this work, which limited his

potential for spatial exploration.

This wasn’t a statue of a goddess, a

general on a horse, or even his mistress.

It was a sculpture of an inanimate object.

It wasn’t carved, chiseled, or molded.

It was constructed.

Sculpture as drawing.

Gravity replaces welding.

Made of only one part,

Picasso manipulated the

material of the work itself,

to create a complex piece.

The secret to radical creative thinking?

1. Ask "why' questions

2. Have a trusted partner

3. Do a lot of work.

4. Play

1. Ask "why' questions.

Why can’t sculpture be assembled,

when you can construct it out of metal?

Why does it have to be on a pedestal,

when it can hang on a wall?

Why does sculpture have to be so serious,

when it could be fun?

2. Have a trusted partner.

3. Do a lot of work.

4. Play

Don't think of your work as a

terrifying, deep, somber, nail-

biting, earnest, life-and-death,

intense, weighty, solemn

professional challenge.

It's a form of play.

Thank you.