His name is Picasso for a reason
- Empress Cynthia
- May 9, 2016
- 3 min read
Because "he's a (major) asshole" I thought, after learning about this artist and his past with multiples of girls and women while touring the Picasso exhibition, Picasso: The artist and his Muses, at the Vancouver Art Gallery with my oldest brother. Often with my brothers and close friends, the little immature, daring, and witty side of me would peak and I'd crack punny jokes. Me: -posts a mobile picture of the interior of the art gallery with the caption- "Pickasshole: The Artist and his Amuses" Youngest brother: Jesus, it's Picasso. You wrote Pickasshole. So why the "sociopath" tag on this article? To Picasso, these women were not necessarily human but rather mere experiments—objects of amusement for his pleasure and artistic pursuits. He would experiment on them using ink, paint brush, and twisted mind on canvas. This was his way of using these poor women as his experiments and as an outlet to legally express his on/off anger or hatred towards the female gender, by painting distorted pictures of their bodies all mangled up and crap. Whether or not people see these artworks of his as unattractive or morbidly beautiful is subjective. I for one never liked his cubism artwork in the first place (was first introduced to Picasso's artwork in elementary school), as with any other abstract art, it just wasn't my taste. My artistic tastes has always consist of manga artworks, Leonardo Da Vinci, surrealism (which Picasso at some point touched base on), and Rococo styled paintings. Though deep down I cringed at the few of the soft-core pornographic paintings Picasso created, there were actually a few of the non-pornographic ones that I quite liked. Reading about how he had multiple girls and women in his love life and their suffering from his infidelity was giving me a bit of a sour taste in my mouth, especially as I've been through a tragic relationship where my former boyfriend watched and wanked off to porn of other female bodies multiple times behind my back, and eventually chose over me fictional manga/anime drawn females that physically represent nothing of my image. We agreed in the beginning that the relationship is to be fully monogamous and exclusive, AND he told me himself that I'm the ONLY woman in his eyes that he's attracted to but it's too bad he never followed his words. I know what it's like to be cheated on, and frankly, anyone who has ever felt cheated on by a romantic partner in his/her life would have been driven to madness and potentially suicide. Yes, some of Picasso's muses did go completely insane and committed suicide as seen here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/pablo-picasso-women-are-either-goddesses-or-doormats/ I wonder how the other museum tourists felt about Picasso betraying all these women, one thing for sure, I had a feeling some of them were displeased as they read about Picasso's infidelity. It irks me that there are potentially people out there who sees Picasso as a role model even after all the horrendous things he did and consequential damage his infidelity implanted into these poor women's' minds. As one of his ex lovers told him, "As an artist, you may be extraordinary, but morally speaking you are worthless."~Dora Maar Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2111329/How-Picasso-called-women-goddesses-doormats-drove-lovers-despair-suicide-cruelty-betrayal.html#comments Madness and muses aside, the evolutionary process of Picasso's art was quite interesting. If you were to compare his first artworks to his later ones, you would see a drastic difference. Speaking of which, the whole experimenting on females via artwork kind of reminds me of this messed up artist from the game "The Cat Lady", which I downloaded on Steam and finished playing. If you're above the age of 18 and haven't played the game yet, I highly recommend it. It's amusing and pretty dang interesting (no worries, there's no actual pornographic elements in it. The most nudity there was were a pair of breasts...a baby-friendly body part that shouldn't even be sexualized in the first place).
