Posted on 04/06/2022 10:50:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Pablo Picasso's track-record with women certainly would not make him a feminist pin-up today.
There were two wives, at least six mistresses and countless lovers -- with a tendency to abandon women when they became ill, a voracious appetite for prostitutes, and some eye-popping age differences (his second wife was 27 when he married her at 79).
Some of the quotes attributed to him would probably cause Twitter's servers to combust if he said them now ("For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats").
SNIP
But in a post-MeToo world, it poses a challenge for those who manage his legacy. "Obviously MeToo tarnished the artist," said Cecile Debray, director of the Picasso Museum in Paris.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Hey, the Modern Lovers called it, back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras
Just shut up and sing Picasso!
I never liked his ugly ‘art’
He had serious mental illness. Maybe that’s why the left loves him. Frankly, I don’t see any talent in his works.
He should be cancelled because of his shitty ass “art work.”
No, kids in kindergarten post his stuff on the walls frequently.
I am sure he would be a democrat if here today, everybody who is truly a sh@tty artist is
You mean war is horrible? My God, I never knew that!
LOL, I feel the same way about "anti-war films"; as if some filmmaker is going to cure us of having wars by making a "powerful statement" against war.
I’ve been studying art and art history. He was a committed communist. I guess that adds to the idea that he was mentally ill. However, he was quite a genius. If you look at his earliest work he was a wonderful artist. But the communist goal of destroying culture is reflected in all of his later work.
Picasso was a pathetic excuse for an artist. I knew his work was trash the first time I was exposed to it in 7th grade art class. No wonder the Left loved him.
I don't care about that. His art however, is junk. Every century or so the art world resets or goes in a different direction. And yesterday's in vogue becomes decidedly passe.
“...But the communist goal of destroying culture is reflected in all of his later work...”
Are you familiar with the work of H.R. Rookmaaker and his book, MODERN ART AND THE DEATH OF CULTURE? He takes the tack that decadent culture produces decadent art more than the other way around.
Picture of Dorian Gray, isn’t it.
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