Picasso was gay
Contrary to expectation, these books provide new information about and enlarge our understanding of Picasso and his art
Thirty-three years after the artist’s death, the Picasso industry shows no sign of flagging. Type “Picasso” into Google and you’ll be offered a staggering 54 million entries (of 20th-century figures, only Adolf Hitler, with 68 million, gets more). With the exception of the delightful Lump, these new books, in their own different ways, broaden our understanding of Picasso’s art.
Adopting an essentially biographical approach, Anne Baldassari and Elizabeth Cowling relate the art to two people who played a decisive role in Picasso’s complicated life—the one emotionally and artistically, the other professionally. Christopher Green’s Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo, suggests the more speculative nature of his enquiry, which leads the reader into areas remote from conventional art history.
Dr Baldassari’s Picasso: Life with Dora Maar. Love and War accompanied an exhibition earlier this year of the similar title at the Musée Picasso in Paris, where the author is directo
&#;Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World&#;
By Georgetowner • July 11, 4
Reviewed by Kitty Kelley
Creative genius aside, the famed artist was hardly a good guy
I had no idea until I read “Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World” by Miles that Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” was so shocking.
After visiting the Musée national Picasso in Paris last month, I would possess pinned that ribbon on “Guernica,” his mammoth evocation of the horrors of war. (Obviously, I missed the memo proclaiming sex more shocking than man’s inhumanity to man.)
Strictly translated, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” means the fresh , unmarried women ofAvignon — the ancient town in southeast France in the Vaucluse, on the left bank of the Rhône. But elementary French does not capture Picasso’s revolutionary painting, meant to rivet and revolt. As he said, “Art is not made to decorate apartments &#; It is an instrument ofoffensive and defensive war against the enemy.”
In , Picasso’s opponent was “the centuries-old tradition” of art, which he attacked withhis full artillery, pr
PICASSO GAY?
Among the many works of Picasso, the adj Spanish artist
Going by the definitions on LGBT set by the Putrajaya Consultative Council of Parents and Teachers Associations, Picasso is deemed gay for sporting a red flower on his left ear and bare-chested!
Defining LGBT.
This guy with cawat is definitely gay! Noted for their manhood, that RamSikh cannot be gay. No?
Chilling portrait of Picasso the monster: 50 years after his death, how the genius bewitched his serial younger lovers, beat and betrayed them - then crushed them onto his canvas TOM LEONARD's vivid impression of an outrageous life
Few would disagree with history's verdict that Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists ever. And no painting has earned him more acclaim than Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, his iconoclastic Cubist study of five naked prostitutes from a Barcelona brothel.
For many, it epitomizes what made Picasso so special: his revolutionary painting style and shockingly radical representation of the female form.
But are his adoring fans also aware that while he was working on Les Demoiselles, Picasso and his longtime mistress Fernande Olivier, briefly adopted a year-old girl named Raymonde from a Paris orphanage who he sketched spreading her legs?
'There's no indication that Picasso ever abused Raymonde [who was later returned to the orphanage],' wrote the artist's biographer Miles Unger, 'but it's clear she aroused feelings in him that might have led to