What are your influences?

Gimme a break, I like lotsa things, Eclectic is the name of the game, just like Picasso. Pablo liked Velazquez, Delacroix, Manet he also liked African Art (yawn) though I am sure it was Modigliani and Pablo’s trips to the Louvre’s African collection (Oops, slipped into my pocket honest officer!) that proved more influential. It has been said that Picasso turned Cezanne’s uniquely angular style of painting into fully fledged Cubist movement along with his Montmatre drinking buddy and partner in crime Georges Braque. Allegedly it was Matisse’s sniffy observations of the new ‘movement’ that helped coin the term ‘Cubist’
Picture the scene: our three hero’s staggering up Rue Ravigan ripped to the gills on cheap wine and Absinthe. Braque and Picasso (together) “We have evolved a new creative movement based on the artistic interpretation of the world in geometic form” Matisse (Pausing to light a Gitane and hoik in the gutter) “Sounds like a load of Cubist merde to me boys, now how about those chorus girls you were talking about?”