[jyl]

I visited a museum of Picasso's early work - stuff he did as a child and young person. I recall it was in the town of his birth. It was amazing. As a teenager, his mastery of all the "conventional" forms of painting was incredible. That helped me understand why he spent his life searching for different ways to represent and abstract figure, form, motion, light. Everything else, he had already done before adulthood.

I like many types of painting - realism, impressionism, primitives, abstract, modern.

Recently went to an exhibit at SF MOMA for Ruth Asawa's work - that was really cool. Google for pics.