If Picasso were alive today, would he use paint or Photoshop?

If Picasso were alive today, would he use paint or Photoshop?

  • Paint

    Votes: 30 46.9%

  • Photoshop

    Votes: 4 6.3%

  • Who's Picasso?

    Votes: 5 7.8%

  • Meh

    Votes: 25 39.1%
  • Total voters
    64
  • Poll closed .
Interesting thread. The film-lover's mocking retort that - at some level- you know that those who inspired you, resulting in your choice to use antiquated tools, would likely not have chosen those tools if they were active photographers today... so you mock the question. Expected/predictable...

Carry on...
 
shadowfox said:
What other thread?
would someone please summarize it for those of us who missed it? :)
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The one which was immediately above or below this one:

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Poll: If Henri Carter Nression was alive today, would he shoot film or digital?"

That Mr. Nresson was quite the guy too :)
 
If photography and the assorted darkroom trickery available even then didn't pique his interest, I don't think photoshop would have. Then again, if he saw that guy's giant photo of a boring river in Germany selling for millions of dollars, maybe he would change his mind.

Now, what about Dali?
 
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I'm not even sure why this thread is still open... probably because someone with more than 9k posts started it:bang:
 
Somewhere I have a photo of Picasso using a camera, of all things a Fed 2 :eek:
which he was gifted by his wife.
PicassoandFed2.jpg
 
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Depends on how old he was when all of this digital stuff came into being. A former employer and professional mentor was a fine artist all his life, as well as an advertising and graphic design man. Beginning in the 50s — the real Mad Men stuff. He still paints, draws, carves, sculpts. He also enjoys photography and has a digital (Canon) SLR. But, he doesn't mess with Photoshop. Two reasons: he doesn't have the taste for (non-traditional) manipulation, and he's really only barely a computer user. Only in the last few years does he even use email.

If Picasso were a younger man, though, sure. He'd experiment with whatever was current. And, then, hopefully, he'd go back to the traditional processes and mediae. The stuff that matters and lasts and typically has the most monetary value.
 
Photography was available when he was famous, and he most probably taken picture, the question is moot, he's an artist, and his tools are reflexions and ideas. Photoshop is only a tool for executing task not to think at all.
 
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