Pablo Picasso once said “Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”. Most people think that Picasso’s art was only abstract, and child like. Many people criticize his work and think “Man I can paint better than this guy”. Little do most people know that Picasso started painting at a young age, and could depict any person or thing perfectly on a canvas. He could make paintings look so life like, and fill them with such emotion and color. He got bored though, of meeting everyone’s expectations, of painting “In the lines” and there for started painting abstract art called “Cubism”. Picasso would paint the subject from many different perspectives. He wanted to shy away from peoples traditional understanding of perspective. I never learned to appreciate Picasso’s art until I knew more about Picasso. He was an amazing painter who went against the grain and stopped painting the way people expected him too, despite the criticism that his art still receives to this day. Now when I look at Picasso’s work I don’t see “Child like paintings” but I see ART. I see individualism and courage, and boldness. Then it came to me, what if I stopped looking at people as just people, but more as art. After all we are all the art work of God. What if instead of only observing the subject, we look a little deeper into this piece of art. Look at scars not as flaws but as stories, for we all have scars, some of us just wear ours on the inside. What if when we looked at someone, we saw their life, their journey, there heart and in that we see their features. Picasso taught me something…to really appreciate someone, to really see their beauty, I have to look a little deeper, because behind every face is a story, and sometimes it’s a beautiful one.
"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso" -Pablo Picasso
