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This discussion is about the influence, if any, on Pablo Picasso, and if the painting Hope, played an influential role in the making of Picasso's The Old Guitarist. Iridescent has reverted an edit that reads:
"Although Watts's work was seen as outdated and sentimental by the English Modernist movement, his experimentation with Symbolism and Expressionism drew respect from the European Modernists, notably the young Pablo Picasso, whose distorted features and broad sweeps of blue in The Old Guitarist (1903–1904) may have been inspired by Hope.
It now reads: "notably the young Pablo Picasso, who reproduced Hope's intentionally distorted features and broad sweeps of blue in The Old Guitarist (1903–1904)." The word reproduced seems a stretch, at least according to the Tate source ("seems like the precursor to Picasso’s own Blue Period paintings, such as The Old Guitarist 1903–4"). The other source, Tromans|2011|p=40, is unverifiable online. Coldcreation (talk) 11:51, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
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