Olé Picasso!

  Picasso!

Don’t look at nature after art to slight

The art.  The point of art is not to ape

But thinking.  Artists target to incite,

Not prettify, but cause the mind to gape.

To criticize a painting for a lack

Of slavishness to facts is silliness

Akin to faulting Coco, her attack

On women’s froufrou and its frilliness.

Instead you might be well-advised to look

At art to teach your brain a thing or two

About the nature that the artist took

To make the thoughtful point he grew.

..Some artists have forgotten nature.   They

….Torment nature. The natural is their prey.