Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
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").
None of this is new -- it has been recycled through books and articles from (sometimes traumatised) family members since soon after his death in 1973.
But in a post-MeToo world, it poses a challenge for those who manage his legacy.
How can these aholes believe that you can look at something over 60 years ago through today's eyes???
Just like slavery, women's suffrage, Civil Rights, lack of black women on the Supreme Court, etc, time is an antiseptic
How can these aholes believe that you can look at something over 60 years ago through today's eyes???
Just like slavery, women's suffrage, Civil Rights, lack of black women on the Supreme Court, etc, time is an antiseptic
Even more, we enjoy Picasso's art without needing to approve of Picasso himself. His art speaks for himself and it's unrelated to the type of person he is.
Btw, art has some of the best ROI out of all other assets these days. It's just not very liquid, but neither is real estate.
Even more, we enjoy Picasso's art without needing to approve of Picasso himself. His art speaks for himself and it's unrelated to the type of person he is.
Btw, art has some of the best ROI out of all other assets these days. It's just not very liquid, but neither is real estate.
That's the way it is with all famous artists.
It's always the paintings, not the person who painted them. Many artists led flamboyant lives; it helped them get notice and notice sold paintings.
But as many more led quiet lives, had solid relationships, and were never notorious.
Both types worked hard. The work had to be good to sell, and they all had to produce as much as they could. It was their job. No matter what kind of life they led, most of it was spent at their work.
Picasso's early work is now 100 years old, and he was a prodigious worker. His art still sells whenever any comes up on auction, and everyone knows how he lived.
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").
None of this is new -- it has been recycled through books and articles from (sometimes traumatised) family members since soon after his death in 1973.
But in a post-MeToo world, it poses a challenge for those who manage his legacy.
How can these aholes believe that you can look at something over 60 years ago through today's eyes???
Just like slavery, women's suffrage, Civil Rights, lack of black women on the Supreme Court, etc, time is an antiseptic
Picasso sounds no different to many modern celebrities and the Hollywood scene, although I don't think he was as weird as many of celebs today.
Even more, we enjoy Picasso's art without needing to approve of Picasso himself. His art speaks for himself and it's unrelated to the type of person he is.
Btw, art has some of the best ROI out of all other assets these days. It's just not very liquid, but neither is real estate.
Exactly.
Elvis was a child molester.(look up the term "cherries") John Lennon was a terrible abuser. This has nothing to do with their body of work.
" Well, the girls would turn the color of an avocado
When he would drive down their street
In his El Dorado
He could walk down your street
And girls could not resist to stare
Pablo Picasso never got called an *$$hole"
Pablo Picasso's track-record with women certainly would not make him a feminist pin-up today... some eye-popping age differences (his second wife was 27 when he married her at 79).
Do today's feminists think a 27-year-old woman is not mature enough to decide for herself who she will marry?
Picasso sounds no different to many modern celebrities and the Hollywood scene, although I don't think he was as weird as many of celebs today.
Maybe this is why Hunter Biden dabbled in art? He didn't have the patience to write so he painted.
The question is did Picasso fall into debauchery due to his fame or was he always a clod? The same could be asked of Hunter....
It is of course dumb to hold someone up to the magnifying glass of today's Woke. History is History and they should let the dead lay in peace.
I wonder when they will come for Walt Disney?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
