Esmeralda the goat

I took this photo at the Picasso museum in Paris. One of the amazing things about most galleries in Europe is that it is OK to photograph art works (providing you don't use flash of course). People photographed art, they painted their own picture of the art, they viewed and absorbed the works. When I thought about it I realised that of course Picasso would have approved. For Picasso, and the other painters of his era, once a work of art had been produced it was a thing in its own right. It existed as a tree or house or any other object and therefore could be treated as such. This would include it being photographed. Once I had this thought I snapped away (without flash) with the best of them.