Mon 24th Jul, 2006, Picasso, Curator's Corner

Picasso’s comment on Israeli situation

Here’s an artsy little time-waster: Mr Picassohead, a Flash application from Ruder Finn Interactive of New York that let’s you assemble a painting using typica motifs of Old Cubeball himself.
No actual drawing involved; just drag in the components of your choice, scale them up or down, flip ‘em around and choose the colours. Pablo would have a fit.

It looks as though some 487,000 people so far have not only “painted” a wee work of art but submitted it to the online gallery. I’m not entirely sure why – maybe they don’t have a blog! (If so, that’s a half-million fewer bloggers than I thought there was.)

I whipped this one up in a couple of minutes. Bidding starts at a dollar and goes down from there.