this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So is the takeaway that he had some mental illness? Lots of dementia patients have the same trend in their art.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe he suffered from schizophrenia

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah that would do it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

i think the takeaway is that the post is a joke founded on the mistake of interpretting all of the portraits as directly representative, implying that, as an old man, picasso looked like a cubist nightmare in real life, when he actually probably just looked like an old human.