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surviving shahryar
BEST seen in LARGE size.
Surviving Picasso:
The music - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw_uVeH9EjI
The movie - www.imdb.com/title/tt0117791/
His women: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcID_3369ZI
"Women are machines for suffering, Picasso told his mistress Françoise Gilot in 1943. Indeed, as they embarked on their nine-year affair, the 61-year-old artist warned the 21-year-old student: For me there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats.
From Rembrandt and Goya to Bonnard and Stanley Spencer, male artists have drawn obsessively and immensely productively on the faces and bodies of their wives and lovers. But no one used and abused his women quite like the greatest artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso.
Picasso eviscerates his women in the service of his art. Women pulled and gouged into tortured shapes, women cut in bits and reconfigured on the canvas. Yet harrowing as these images are, they are nothing beside the real life dramas that led to their creation.
Of the seven most important women in Picasso's life, two killed themselves and two went mad. Another died of natural causes only four years into their relationship. Yet while Picasso had affairs with dozens, perhaps hundreds of women, and was true to none of them – except possibly the last – each of these seven women shines out as a crucial catalyst in his development as an artist. Each stands for a different period in his career, representing a complementary or opposing ideal that inspired the evolution of a new visual language. Just as they became obsessively involved with him, so he was dependent on them.
Loyal, generous and affectionate when it suited him, Picasso could be astoundingly brutal, to friends, lovers, even complete strangers. Yet he felt real, often anguished passion for each of these women – a passion he explored in tens of thousands of paintings, drawings and prints, in which he attempted to capture not just the way these women looked, but the totality of his feelings towards them.
Lest it should be thought that Picasso had things entirely his own way, the case of Françoise Gilot is instructive. This young aspiring artist – just 21 when they met – seems to have handled Picasso's cruelties and perversities with amazing deftness, and was the only woman to leave him entirely voluntarily, with her dignity more or less intact."
Skin and outfit (Avatar Sheherazade): Meilo Minotaur
Pose: Mimesis Monday
Installation created by Meilo Minotaur
Second Life: Sheherazade: if you want to survive, tell a story (at The Companion)
surviving shahryar
BEST seen in LARGE size.
Surviving Picasso:
The music - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw_uVeH9EjI
The movie - www.imdb.com/title/tt0117791/
His women: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcID_3369ZI
"Women are machines for suffering, Picasso told his mistress Françoise Gilot in 1943. Indeed, as they embarked on their nine-year affair, the 61-year-old artist warned the 21-year-old student: For me there are only two kinds of women, goddesses and doormats.
From Rembrandt and Goya to Bonnard and Stanley Spencer, male artists have drawn obsessively and immensely productively on the faces and bodies of their wives and lovers. But no one used and abused his women quite like the greatest artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso.
Picasso eviscerates his women in the service of his art. Women pulled and gouged into tortured shapes, women cut in bits and reconfigured on the canvas. Yet harrowing as these images are, they are nothing beside the real life dramas that led to their creation.
Of the seven most important women in Picasso's life, two killed themselves and two went mad. Another died of natural causes only four years into their relationship. Yet while Picasso had affairs with dozens, perhaps hundreds of women, and was true to none of them – except possibly the last – each of these seven women shines out as a crucial catalyst in his development as an artist. Each stands for a different period in his career, representing a complementary or opposing ideal that inspired the evolution of a new visual language. Just as they became obsessively involved with him, so he was dependent on them.
Loyal, generous and affectionate when it suited him, Picasso could be astoundingly brutal, to friends, lovers, even complete strangers. Yet he felt real, often anguished passion for each of these women – a passion he explored in tens of thousands of paintings, drawings and prints, in which he attempted to capture not just the way these women looked, but the totality of his feelings towards them.
Lest it should be thought that Picasso had things entirely his own way, the case of Françoise Gilot is instructive. This young aspiring artist – just 21 when they met – seems to have handled Picasso's cruelties and perversities with amazing deftness, and was the only woman to leave him entirely voluntarily, with her dignity more or less intact."
Skin and outfit (Avatar Sheherazade): Meilo Minotaur
Pose: Mimesis Monday
Installation created by Meilo Minotaur
Second Life: Sheherazade: if you want to survive, tell a story (at The Companion)