Blog Assignment #12: 11/29-12/3

Please read the story below and answer the following questions:
1. What is Picasso saying?
2. How does our society value art?
3. Give a parallel example to Picasso's story (ex: if someone asked a doctor to quickly give them stitches at a picnic and is surprised that the doctor's bill is $300.)

The Picasso Principle

The famous Pablo Picasso was at a party. A woman recognized him and approached the Master. She asked, “Will you create a sketch for me?”

Picasso agreed, and, as he pulled out his sketchpad, asked her for a subject.

“A bird in a tree will do,” she responded.

So Picasso spent about a five minutes doing what Picasso does on the sketchpad. Finished, he ripped the sketch off the pad, handed it to the woman and said, “That will be $10,000.”

The woman was floored. “Ten thousand dollars! Why, it only took you five minutes to draw that sketch!”

To which, Picasso replied, “No, madam. That sketch took me thirty years.”

due at 3:30 on Friday December 3, 2010. -Ms. Woerman