Picasso was the gateway to true modern art. his painting les demoiselles d'avignon is considered the birth of modern art, which influenced many of the other great modern painters. art doesn't need to be perfectly and accurately represented images to be beautiful; art is intended to invoke a mood to the viewer.”
do you agree with the author regarding picasso, the painting, and the definition of art? why or why not?

Yeah, I agree.

Explanation:

The main idea behind the European movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, Impressionism and all of these cultural expressions is that they were trying to create another point of view about art. Until that moment, art was something related to beauty. But what kind of beauty? According to the philosopher Immanuel Kant, something beautiful is something that is universally accepted as it. So, the academic paintings were following this statement, and couldn't diverge from it. However, when the European vanguards begin to broke this established rule, they were trying to show that art is a personal thing. You bring something to the painting, and the painting left something in you. It is an exchange of feelings. The idea of beauty cannot be described by philosophical terms, that's what those painters were trying to say.

It would. a painted portrait would be an important thing because they are official and take real artists to paint and if it was a painted portrait it would mean that there's seriousness and a desire to work together. portraits are maybe even more so important today because they are not a mainstream thing and are made only when we want to impress someone since they take time and will.sending a picture would not be the same as sending a portrait because a picture is just taken with a camera and there's no soul to it. if a picture is a painted one then it can reaffirm, especially if both states people are in it. if it's just a photograph then there wouldn't be much to it.things today are different because there's photographs everywhere and seeing pictures has lost its meaning since they are so abundant and found everywhere. all newspapers have pictures and just sending the same picture as everyone has would not mean much since it's easily obtainable.  perception of authority has changed over the years because the people trust their governments less and less as years go by. before world war two, governments were trusted and presidents were believed to work for the good of the country. nowadays, everyone is looking out for things that might bring the downfall of governments since it has been shown that governments often do bad things to say in power.