What was so special about Picasso's paintings?

Picasso had a very long career and was involved in many artistic "movements". He is primarily known for his early interest in cubism and in abstract impressionism.

Both of these techniques take forms and reduce them to geometrical components and in the case of abstract impressionism, to mere "impressions" of shape and color.

Picasso was extremely prolific, and not only produced many paintings but both small and large-scale sculptures as well. Many of the techniques pioneered by Picasso and some of his other contemporaries are now standard techniques.

According to Picasso himself the thing about his painting that was so special is that he couldn't paint worth a fig. He could draw well and he was the best self-promoter the art world has ever seen. He created a brand for himself before the expression was coined.

Although there are earlier examples of Cubism, Picasso is known as the first and most popular cubist artist. Any artist who is at the forefront of a new movement of art never before seen will always be regarded as special.

He was also one of the first and best at promoting himself as a brand at a time when no other artist was doing this. Dali did it later and of course, Warhol did the same but Picasso was one of the first and definitely one the most skilled at this. He admitted late in life that much of his work was trash created solely to rake in the money. His early work like Guernica was decidely not trash.

I guess it depends on your subjective point of view if you enjoy them or not. I'm not a huge Picasso fan, personally, but I love Van Gogh's work.

I'm not a fan of Picasso so I don't know. I think after he found fame, he knew any kind of junk he produced would sell for big money so he just created junk. Not everything he did was bad, but a lot of it was.

I've seen kindergartener's do as well,

so I hope someone gives you a good answer,

because I too would like to know why his are so much more valuable.

I've never heard of a kindergartener cutting off their ear, so maybe that's it.

Oh wait, that was Van Gogh who cut his ear off. But I feel the same about his art.

I like their artwork, but I don't place the same value on it as the market does.

They spoke to many people and made them think. He inspired the movement to cubism in art and created the collage technique. He was an inspiration to artists who came after him. He also took art from being realistic to being an interpretation of realistic. He opened up a whole new world to artists. He looked at the world and art in a different way.

They were good.

Okay, so I'm not much of an art critic...

piccaso often took many women at a time into his home, fornicated with them and drew paintings after

he creditted this to his master pieces

due to his fame and obvious master skill his paintings became of high value

many of his paintings still have remnants of his semen from back in the day, those are the most expensive.

virtually nothing if you're not influenced by him