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drygnfyre t1_j2d8tqy wrote

I always forget Picasso died in the 1970s. I don't know why, but I always think of him the same way I think of Raphael or Michaelangelo, some artist who lived centuries ago. I wasn't alive when he was, but my parents were.

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tetoffens t1_j2dewxv wrote

I always mix up van Gogh and Picasso as far as when they lived and it makes me think Picasso was older than he is. It makes a little bit of sense. They were only born 28 years apart and both in the second half of the 1800s but Picasso was alive for 83 years after van Gogh's death.

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Apprehensive_Pea7911 t1_j2eauqn wrote

Yet 1970s was 50 years ago. So it is actually a long time ago.

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drygnfyre t1_j2fwi2u wrote

Given a good chunk of the world's population was still alive alongside Picasso, I don't really consider this "a long time ago," at least not in the sense I was thinking of. I think a lot of this came from taking art classes in school, we'd read about him alongside Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Raphael, so this probably made me think of him as one of the ancient greats.

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