Sketches for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, a new form of contemporary Western European Art
Pablo Ruis Picasso was big success from very early in his life. It can be argued that he may have had the sort of appeal of the rock star today where women are concerned. He had many relationships in his long career, and he did not treat the women he attracted to him very well. Most recently the Nobel Laureate V.S.Naipaul came under scrutiny for his treatment of his first wife and it caused quite a stir. What is it about some famous men and their relationships that we, the public must trawl? Does the famous person's skill become more or less apparent with the knowledge of their peccadillo's? I think it depends on what they have done. When it is bad behavior with another consenting adult, it may be goggled at, but when it falls into the line of abhorrent and deviant behavior, it causes one to look deeper at their body of work for clues. Perhaps Picasso had a more deep seated reason for disassembling women in his paintings. That is just a joke people...or is it? - Adele .........................................................................................................................................................................
Pablo Picasso realized the power of being true to whatever his inner drive lead him to. His love of women and his despise of being too smothered reproduced art that reflected his sadistic means of mutilation and harm. In his portraits of women, he publicly humiliated the subject, yet he was incapacitated without their motherly nurturing instincts. In the process, his works looked repulsive, but then it began to be accepted from a circle of artists that he convinced over the meaning or secrets behind any man-made objects. The mystic was that it should not be disclosed. The strength of a paintings should hold up to publicly scrutiny whether its content seemed crude, uncultured or unclear. Acceptance marked its legitimacy.
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