How to Be Successful in Media? Gertrude Stein Has the Answers!

When I attended the Newhouse School at Syracuse University we read The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas amp160I was intrigued that it was written by someone other than Alice amp160That was my first experience with thinkdifferent wiringamp160 The book is a stunning lesson on coping with and reacting to controversyamp160 Stein was a patron of the arts notably of Picasso amp160But Picassoamp8217s Paris was a conservative parochial society that had a lot of rules about what art should be and how one should behave amp160Stein was a Lesbian amp160Picassoamp8217s artwork was an apparent mess amp160Just a big messStein shares the story in the book of the very first display of Picassoamp8217s paintings in a formal Parisian gallery amp160No one had seen his work amp160The time frame was the period at the end of the age of Impressionism which celebrated pretty water lilies and starry nights amp160Picassoamp8217s art was bold brash and not based on realismGertrude Stein watched the event in the art gallery from a balcony above the crowd amp160She had bankrolled Picasso39s work amp160It was her money on those wallsThe crowd was outraged amp160Outraged amp160They were disgusted with Picassoamp8217s work amp160Many threatened never to come to the gallery again amp160They certainly had no interest in buying the paintings amp160They threatened to end their relationships with the gallery amp160How dare they show this garbage from this socalled artistamp8220Newamp8221 means risk both financially and socially amp160The entrepreneurs who thrive are the ones who believe in the viability of their new ideas and new products amp160They believe so hard in their project that not even Parisian society or every American investment banker amp8211 can stop them amp160These entrepreneurs are often perceived as arrogant amp160Instead consider that the successful entrepreneur is a fine artist confident in his or her visionTo quote the book amp8220Gertrude Stein smiledamp8221Click the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writersamp160amp160

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