Is Picasso being cancelled?

France24 ^ | 06/04/2022

[Kriggerel]

Hey, the Modern Lovers called it, back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras

[PGR88]

[Graybeard58]

Just shut up and sing Picasso!

[Guenevere]

I never liked his ugly ‘art’

[nickcarraway]

I didn't either, except Guernica is a statement on the horrors of war.

[Islander7]

He had serious mental illness. Maybe that’s why the left loves him. Frankly, I don’t see any talent in his works.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

He should be cancelled because of his shitty ass “art work.”

[GingisK]

No, kids in kindergarten post his stuff on the walls frequently.

[dsrtsage]

I am sure he would be a democrat if here today, everybody who is truly a sh@tty artist is

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I didn't either, except Guernica is a statement on the horrors of war.

You mean war is horrible? My God, I never knew that!

[Sans-Culotte]

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.

[gspurlock]

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.

[thegagline]

Pablo Picasso by the Modern Lovers

[Dan in Wichita]

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.

[Rummyfan]

Pablo Picasso's track-record with women certainly would not make him a feminist pin-up today.

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.

[Monterrosa-24]

“...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.

[Rummyfan]

Okay, Guernica was good but sh*tcan the rest of it.

[sphinx]

Picture of Dorian Gray, isn’t it.

[Angelino97]

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is an antiwar novel. In his Introduction, Vonnegut acknowledged that writing an antiwar novel is like writing an anti-glacier novel. Wars and glaciers will arise and press forward, despite however many novels one writes against them.