Picasso

Abstract

* RICHARD CORNISH is an artist, and part-time lecturer in History o f Art, Aesthetics and Philosophy at the Nat­ ional Art School in Newcastle. Picasso is dead. For artists a certain security has been lost. At the topm ost parts of their heads they know now tha t they will have to create the fu ture o f a rt themselves if they can. T hat no one, no t even those who are seemingly im m ortal, can do it for them . We now look a t Picasso’s paintings d if­ ferently. Awareness o f his death puts his work in a new light. Com plete now, it