What are you the Picasso of? (illustration by the author for Hyperallergic)
As an increasingly globalized monoculture takes hold, people often resort to using celebrities and innovators as their barometers of success. Cédric Villani, of whom you’ve probably never heard, has been deemed “the Lady Gaga of mathematics.” Genevieve Nnaji, a Nollywood superstar, is known as “the Julia Roberts of Africa.” Kanye West aspires to be “the Steve Jobs of the Gap,” while hedge fund manager and Sotheby’s board member Daniel Loeb has been dubbed “the Kanye West of Wall Street.” And these guys are “the David Blaines of Turkish ice cream.” So many people have been described as the Michael Jordan of their respective disciplines that it was the subject of an interactive Wall Street Journal feature.
Who is the art world’s paragon of excellence? Andy Warhol is a close second, as we previously observed, but the Michael Jordan of artistic prowess analogies has got to be Pablo Picasso. Presenting:
- “The Picasso of Accounting”
- “The Picasso of Airbrush Compressor and Sprayer Kits”
- “The Picasso of Anal Pleasuring Toys”
- “The Picasso of the Animal Kingdom”
- “The Picasso of Batting”
- “The Picasso of Bonsai”
- “The Picasso of Boxing”
- “The Picasso of Breast Surgeons”
- “The Picasso of Butt-Drawers”
- “The Picasso of Carnival and Circus Canvases”
- “The Picasso of Cartography”
- “The Picasso of Chinese Studies”
- “The Picasso of Choke Artists”
- “The Picasso of Coffee Art”
- “The Picasso of Commercial Artists”
- “The Picasso of Constitutional Theorists”
- “The Picasso of Cricket”
- “The Picasso of Dirty Cars”
- “The Picasso of DNA”
- “The Picasso of Dust Jacket Design”
- “The Picasso of Election Analysis”
- “The Picasso of Emojis”
- “The Picasso of Eye Makeup Art”
- “The Picasso of Fashion Illustration”
- “The Picasso of the Ghetto”
- “The Picasso of Golf Course Designers”
- “The Picasso of Graphic Design”
- “The Picasso of Haircut Portraits”
- “The Picasso of Haiti”
- “The Picasso of Harlem”
- “The Picasso of Hummus”
- “The Picasso of India”
- “The Picasso of Ivory Artists”
- “The Picasso of Jazz”
- “The Picasso of Keyboard Funk”
- “The Picasso of LEGO Bricks”
- “The Picasso of Low-temperature Geochemistry”
- “The Picasso of Mauritania”
- “The Picasso of the Machine Age”
- “The Picasso of Mushing”
- “The Picasso of NASCAR”
- “The Picasso of Palestine”
- “The Picasso of Pancakes”
- “The Picasso of Parking Lots”
- “The Picasso of Passive Aggression”
- “The Picasso of Pasta”
- “The Picasso of Pastry”
- “The Picasso of the Personal Pic”
- “The Picasso of Picasa”
- “The Picasso of the Pier”
- “The Picasso of Pin-Ups”
- “The Picasso of Pinstripes”
- “The Picasso of Plagiarism”
- “The Picasso of Plating”
- “The Picasso of Popular Imagination”
- “The Picasso of Potholes”
- “The Picasso of Prejudice”
- “The Picasso of Proctology”
- “The Picasso of Procurement”
- “The Picasso of Pumpkins”
- “The Picasso of Puppy Portraits”
- “The Picasso of the Put-Down”
- “The Picasso of the Quilt World”
- “The Picasso of Reality Shows”
- “The Picasso of Robots”
- “The Picasso of Rock and Roll”
- “The Picasso of Second Base”
- “The Picasso of Serial Killers”
- “The Picasso of Simian Artists”
- “The Picasso of Snapchat”
- “The Picasso of Sneakers”
- “The Picasso of Sport Bikes”
- “The Picasso of Stained Glass”
- “The Picasso of Steel”
- “The Picasso of Surfers”
