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#the_more_you_know
Jun 17, 2024 9:50 PM
BinocularsAreFuckinAwesome
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#the_more_you_know
UncleMeaty
Some people try to pick up girls they get called an asshole
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
Why he could walk down your street, girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Not like you
Now, the girls would turn the color of an avocado
When he would drive down the street in his El Dorado
Why, he was only 5'3 girls could not resist his stare
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Not in New York
aDampWeasel
But born 1881 so ya
jolem53
No, no. Picasso died in 1973. He was in his 1500s. Really old.
Gerdalearnedme
Picasshole
Kazpur81S
You must’ve been thinking about Leonardo di Caprio, the ceiling painter from 16th century Italy
HashMaster9k
I remember being super surprised when I learned it— I was in college and watching Monty Python episodes, and there was a joke about Picasso participating in a Bicycle Race, and I thought, "Wait, he'd have been dead by then, right? Like for 50 or 60 years, right?"
Nope.
Didn't die until like 5 or do years after that aired. Picasso and Monty Python were contemporary artists.
Blew my mind.
chackstar
He died in the mid-to-late 1900s
shanasphone350
I make it a goal every day to learn at least 5 more you know things per day. I am smarter, no, but I am better educated every day. Education, real education is the key. Ask questions, look at real science and facts. ILL THROW IN VOTE
Snooj
Jimmy Carter, who is still alive, was born before both Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom were born the same year.
kamenhokage
Ah beat me to it. Have the upvote.
SnowpersonHitInTheFaceWithALackOfCreativity
Although I wish him no pain, I understand he is terminally ill, I also hope he makes it to October and reaches 100 years old. If nothing else, just as one last great accomplishment
CptRobotNinja
I hope his last days are filled with peace and dignity, surrounded by loved ones and basking in joy. That man spent his life in service to his fellow humans. He deserves only the best
TheNamiKage
Yeah its things like this that I could see myself getting lost in trying to know all of history. Like the great composers are never taught in the same context as the politics of their day. Like yeah motzart was hired to the Austrian emperor, who was that emperor? What was going in in the court he was writing the sound track for?
Grimvarr
He designed the ChupaChups logo.
MaintenanceGuyHere
Yup. Dude would eat at diners and always pay with a check. No one would ever cash them because his signature on the check was worth more than the check
CarlBassett
I read a story years ago of someone who had a stunning villa in the south of France and Picasso stayed for a few days as his guest, I forget the details. But Picasso decided to thank him by painting a huge mural on the wall, making it almost priceless. Thing is, the guy didn't own the house. It belonged to his boss and he was using it without his knowledge, so he had to paint over the mural so he wouldn't be found out....
AbelardSnazz
he did a TV interview when he was in his seventies and did a quick sketch for the interviewer who said "do you think it's right that this is now worth thousands though it only took you a minute?" Picasso replied "It didn't take me a minute, it took me 70 years"
DdCno1
The perfect response to one of the most common misunderstandings of modern art.
Eomund521
Picasso was most popular in the 20s I think. His work is not some im fond of though.
Targe0
It took till his 50s for him to become more widely known about. But that's art world v. rest of the world, in the time frame of it.
Zuegma197777
This is me trying to be strong to not say anything.
escargogurt
I, too, am ignorant of certain facts and would like to loudly proclaim them to the world.
kimst
As long as you use CAPITAL LETTERS otherwise we can't truly hear the text
Bunhyung
I DON'T KNOW SHIT!
randomguy365
escargogurt
I STILL CANNOT FIND THE TOWN OF CLITORIS AND AM STARTING TO DOUBT THAT IT'S A REAL PLACE
randomguy365
It's north of the fudge factory, just past the Swamp of Desire.
anonymkonto
The lighter was invented before the match
PhloydPhan
Sergei Trufanov, a Russian monk who had personal beef with Rasputin left the Russian Orthodox Church (a story in itself), moved the the US, and became a janitor at the Met Life building in New York and died in 1952. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Trufanov
AtaSeaParks
And then he solved some crazy math problem and he went to therapy and then he liked apples and then stole his line.
sharikov
The english version of the wikipedia page sadly omits the fact that he was an ultranationalist and antisemite who frequently called for violence against Jews and other "foreigners." Feel free to run the Russian page through a translator for the details: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%80%D1%83%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
crushingbore
I thought it was pretty commonly known that Rasputin was around for WW1, which is just over 100 years ago.
ChocolateCookieAndFudge
He used to do the nasty with the tsarina who was executed in 1918.
SoberAndBored
Rasputin's great and great-great grandchildren are alive today, and hearing that Boney M song about how hard their great / great-great grandad fucked
Northwindlowlander
Guernica, one of his most famous paintings, is about the bombing of the town of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War, 1937. Honestly if I didn't know that I wouldn't want to guess when he actually lived.
Targe0
Well, as there's video footage of him working it in colour. It does suggest it to be somewhat recent.
mrbadxampl
I'm Picasso!!!
asm80dfa8sdfj
RIP
Fabulously
No I’m Picasso and so is my wife……
Targe0
Always look on the bright side of art.
richardstinks
Guernica, you know the one with the screaming horse and light bulb? It's a reaction to Nazi bombing. Dada and surrealism were reactions to WWI.
1500s paintings would be mostly church things. Da Vinci's era. That bastard Columbus would have just died in the 1500s.
FuckingTurtleBear
i still can't wrap my noggin around what Dada is. I've tried, i've tried reading and the words slide back out my ears
richardstinks
It's hard without the grasp on history. The world had never been turned as inside out as it had during the First World War. Death and destruction on a scale no one had even imagined. Nothing made sense, so art followed. Not absolute chaos, just nonsense and unhinged.
FuckingTurtleBear
Context is king, as always
HolyHellJezebel
It blows my mind that I was born when Vietnam was still going on. I'm 49.
Puolitettupuolituttu
Vietnam is still going on.
HolyHellJezebel
You know what I mean
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
We are both the same age! Hello fellow Gen Xer!
userfriendly19777
I'm not sure Picasso would have had much succes in the 1500th century. He might even have been excommunicated by the church, or worse.
NepLeet
Very early Picasso - https://cdn8.openculture.com/2018/08/22215513/First-Communion.jpg
wozat
The 1500th century? You mean the years 149901-150000?
mbrauen
*16th century
bingotown
Would have had… many thousands of years from now.
Endocrom
He'd have a harder time pulling this prank for sure
Targe0
They had guns by the 15th century, he could have still done it.
Endocrom
I know, but reloading was a pain.
westellar
... How frequently did he have to fire
Targe0
Honestly, just pulling the trigger would likely be enough most times. As long as they know he occasionally had them loaded to fire would get the same effect across.
airen
I thought bermuda was in the indian ocean
WitchIrkalla
He was apparently not impressed with the moon landing
asm80dfa8sdfj
Here's his painting of the moon landing
TheCarpe
This reads like a teenager being lectured about his grades.
secondgoaround
Pshaw. That was fake anyway.
Eowyneb
Honestly fuck him. He was a pedophile and a cheat. Disgusting human
4vie
.. Cheat, how? Not touching the "pedophile" label with a twenty foot pole.
RobodocCheese
Well by then he was like an 87 yo old cranky man soz
Puolitettupuolituttu
Nah man, you're thinking of Salvador Dalí.
huey9k
Bad news, hoss: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=da57684ab256f8f8&sxsrf=ADLYWII8UVGXtfGFPtm3Jd718uqYUoapsg:1718680328536&q=salvador+dal%C3%AD+died&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LQz9U3sIyvyNOSz0620i9IzS_ISdVPSU1OTSxOTYkvSC0qzs-zSslMTVnEKlycmFOWmJJfpJCSmHN4rQJIFACGTgM7QwAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi22duTl-SGAxXFFzQIHVhkBYcQ18AJegQIIBAB&biw=1280&bih=624&dpr=1.5
asm80dfa8sdfj
I understood that it was a joke
amuchlessweirdusernamethanIhad
Nofoxlefttogive
Gala, would you still love me if I was a ant?
Overextendeddullard
Dali died in 1989
thereitis101
To think a quick search could have avoided this comment.
miserycones
It's crazy to me that this belief is wide-spread enough that this image can become a meme. This would be an insane mistake for someone with even the most passing knowledge of art history. It would be like thinking that Miles Davis and Beethoven were contemporaries.
HandsomePenguin
Congrats you've just seen an example of how people can have different knowledge sets.
forsteri80
https://xkcd.com/1053/
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
that '~100% heard it by 30' always bothered me, seems extremely optimistic for even the most critical information
MegaDeuce
I was surprised when I learned how recently Picasso died. I would have guessed 1940s.
PWBoiler
I agree (although pointing it out got me accused of “dunking on someone” and somehow being against fun.)
Talori
Time and place - the other comment chain was about having fun and didn't necessarily need correcting. This could be seen as calling out the fun as wrong (ie "you are wrong for how you interpreted this situation"), so it receives downvotes. This chain is about what you were saying, so will receive upvotes. Also starting a new comment chain with your original comment would have likely gotten upvotes too. (Tldr; People don't like being corrected when they're having fun with an idea)
Innuendobot5000
If they're not furry yaoi artists then I don't want to know anything about them. I only care about fine art.
dreikommavierzehn
the thing you might not pay enough attention to is that there's many people who stop listening as soon as you use a word like "contemporary"
melni
And that's the thing most people don't have even a passing knowledge of art history. Dead painters all feel like they existed around the 1800s and earlier to most people, including me.
It's like anything, you know your own interests but not much beyond the very, very basics outside that, even then things your knowledge of something you like will still have gaps, ie I was talking to a car guy about my first car having a manual choke, "what's a choke?".
Tumescentpie
I'll bet it has to do with a limited arts education budget forcing about 2000 years of art into a semester and then teaching the kids about the fucking revolutionary War for the 12th time
DdCno1
You can only blame school systems so much. Kids should be encouraged to seek out knowledge on their own, not just by teachers, but by everyone.
Orakia80
That one semester of art history class is elective, and not on any of the recommended lists for college or trade prep, you won't even know about it unless you find the sign up sheet in the lava for
Endocrom
Good quality for the 1500's
BellsTheorem
Even better quality.
Endocrom
Truly, a master
Targe0
He was just that good of an artist. /s