I've just got introduced to this (through Programming Reddit, no less).
My reaction surprised me - Picasso loses me at plate 4, only to completely win me back at plate 11, the last one.
The art experts will have to forgive me, but I think that #11 is almost perfectly disconnected from #10. 4 through 10 represent a formal process of reduction. 11 is the leap beyond formal rules, straight into the quantum heart of the matter. I have a feeling that those intermediate plates are Picasso's post-factum justification of his genius, his attempt at expressing logically that which cannot be logical.
Many lesser men (women too I guess) went that way, only to fail the last stage. Unfortunately, due to Picasso's need to explain, the intermediate stages now qualify as art. I wish we were spared the sight of half-done sausages...
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