Pablo Picasso's Acquisition Of Art Fraud
Pablo Picasso, the brilliant painter whose name is synonymous with masterpiece, once remarked that “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” As a survey of art galleries all around the world, galleries that display perhaps the best works of art, demonstrates, Picasso’s axiom is grounded in fact; painters stealing from each other is commonplace. To adduce one example, artist Elaine Sturtevant is said to have stolen her style and design from “the works of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Haring and more, all without permission,” and “her chameleon-like renditions of other artists’ work defined her career” (Farago). Just as Picasso’s axiom suggests, Sturtevant, after stealing styles and designs from other painters in the 1980s, did indeed become a great
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While it is seemingly reasonable to think that it was a pungent combination of Genghis Khan’s troops, horse-drawn chariots, and skilled generals that led to the expansion of the Mongol empire, this observation turns out to be false. As history shows, the Mongol army was outnumbered in most of its battles in Asia and lacked advanced chariots. So how did Genghis Khan conquer all of Asia? He adopted—one could say stole—Sun Tzu’s warfare tactics presented in The Art of War, a text that was readily available in his time. Reading that swiftness is paramount, Genghis Khan altered his approach to warfare and stressed speed, a tactic found all throughout The Art of War. As a result of this, in just ten years, the Mongolian Empire encompassed all of Asia and even reached, as John M. L. Young notes, into Baghdad and Georgia. While fighting, the Mongolians “reduced city after city” to rubble and ended over five million lives, killing at one city “1,747,000” (Young 27). In short, Genghis Khan adopted—one could say stole—Sun Tzu’s battlefield tactic of swiftness, and brought the whole continent of Asia under Mongolian rule. As Picasso’s axiom goes, “great artists steal,” it should not be surprising that adopting—one could say stealing—Sun Tzu’s tactic led Genghis Khan to become one of the greatest military generals of all
While it is seemingly reasonable to think that it was a pungent combination of Genghis Khan’s troops, horse-drawn chariots, and skilled generals that led to the expansion of the Mongol empire, this observation turns out to be false. As history shows, the Mongol army was outnumbered in most of its battles in Asia and lacked advanced chariots. So how did Genghis Khan conquer all of Asia? He adopted—one could say stole—Sun Tzu’s warfare tactics presented in The Art of War, a text that was readily available in his time. Reading that swiftness is paramount, Genghis Khan altered his approach to warfare and stressed speed, a tactic found all throughout The Art of War. As a result of this, in just ten years, the Mongolian Empire encompassed all of Asia and even reached, as John M. L. Young notes, into Baghdad and Georgia. While fighting, the Mongolians “reduced city after city” to rubble and ended over five million lives, killing at one city “1,747,000” (Young 27). In short, Genghis Khan adopted—one could say stole—Sun Tzu’s battlefield tactic of swiftness, and brought the whole continent of Asia under Mongolian rule. As Picasso’s axiom goes, “great artists steal,” it should not be surprising that adopting—one could say stealing—Sun Tzu’s tactic led Genghis Khan to become one of the greatest military generals of all