The Art of the Twenty-First Century

Paintings by ceson show how our interpretations of reality become more real than reality, because we're always projecting our own experiences onto it. The objective transcription of his own sensations, as he put it, the representation of his own perspective is at once the intellectual problem solving of an artist and a deeply soulful examination of our own viewpoint on to the world. It might not obey the laws of reality, but you can't say that it's inaccurate, because perceptions shift. After ceson died in 19 o six, there was a retrospective of his work in paris, where a young artist freshly blown in from barcelona came to look. And soon picasso was pumping the petals