But he made women look sooo good.
Posted on 06/04/2021 10:11:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
BARCELONA - A professor from a Barcelona art school has staged a protest at a museum dedicated to Pablo Picasso intending to shed light on the Spanish painter's sometimes callous behaviour towards women.
Maria Llopis and seven of her female students appeared at the Picasso Museum wearing t-shirts that read "Picasso, women abuser" and others that referred to Dora Maar, a French artist who is believed to have suffered abuse by Picasso during their relationship in the 1930s and 1940s.
The protest last week echoed the global debate on men's treatment of women, led by the #MeToo movement, which includes reassessing the conduct of deceased personalities as well as the living.
In Spain, women's rights have moved to the political forefront in recent years after several high-profile rape and abuse cases.
Llopis, 45, said she wanted to make a low-key protest to say that the museum was not putting enough focus on Picasso's female relationships, in particular in Maar's work and her troubled life after their break-up.
"It was not an attack on Picasso," she said. "I don't believe at all in cancel culture. I believe in the truth, in not hiding things."
The museum director, Emmanuel Guigon, said he respected the protest and deemed the debate it prompted fundamental. He said that a talk next autumn on Picasso's relationship with women and exhibitions on the issue were already planned.
"We cannot look at Picasso's work and life as we did 20, 40 or 50 years ago," he said. "It can always be looked with new and critical eyes, but we will not remove Picasso's work from art history."
He said that Picasso was undeniably "very machista" but that he did not know of cases of physical abuse.
Picasso, who lived from 1881 to 1973, had many relationships throughout his life.
In a 2001 book, his granddaughter Marina Picasso wrote that he would dispose of women after he "submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them and crushed them onto his canvas".
Art historian Victoria Combalia, the author of a biography on Maar, accused Llopis' protest of being superficial but she backed putting information in museums about the context behind some paintings.
Asked about that possibility, museum director Guigon ruled it out, saying it was more important to hold debates.
There is evidence that at least once Picasso very likely punched Maar on her eye, and that he could be seen as abusive to women in general, Combalia said. (Reporting by Joan Faus, editing by Inti Landauro and Angus MacSwan)
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Jonathan Richman used to hang out backstage at the Velvet Underground shows in Boston in the 1960s.
dead white cisgendered males
Cubists are sooooo square
But he made women look sooo good.
Ummmm...they do know that Picasso is dead don’t they? And, that what they’re doing is useless, pointless virtue signalling that does nothing but gratify the narcissistic soul.
rundrgren would pop on stage in the 80s, great shows
Maybe they should focus on mussies and how they treat women instead.
LOL. These “feminists” all would have dropped their panties for Picasso. Guaranteed.
Ya
He’s dead.
I used to paint just like Picasso.
Then I graduated Kindergarten.................
“The museum director, Emmanuel Guigon...” He said that Picasso was undeniably “very machista” but that he did not know of cases of physical abuse”.
Picasso beat a woman so bad he put her in the hospital. It’s in books written about him that have been out there for years. How could a museum director not know this when it’s commonly written about his life. I think that guys was lying.
I’m glad they are calling Picasso out. He was a horrible man. His art was hideous but let the market be free. However I’m sick to death of people not recognizing it’s just bad.
Dead white commie!
Same song, different version. That’s the first version I heard as well.
Source check: Nope, it’s not The Onion.
I guess his and Dora’s relationship was marred...
And what is he suppose to do about it now?
These same irrational women would all have VOTED for Creepy Joe and Bubba
Beat me to it.
Why?
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