Pablo Picasso: Different perspectives on the cubist's life and art

This year, nearly 50 museums and galleries around the world are marking the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, by honoring the artist's revolutionary vision while also, in the era of #MeToo, reappraising the master's reputation. Correspondent Anthony Mason talks with the artist's daughter, Paloma Picasso; art critic Deborah Solomon; and artist Mickalene Thomas, about how Picasso should be viewed today.

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[inamorata]

If you judge an artist's worth by his/her private life, you will have a very thin cultural portfolio.

[trentmoriartymusic]

I don’t see any problem with understanding his character and appreciating the brilliance his art at the same time. In fact, understanding Picasso’s character helps you understand his artwork more - both the light and the darkness. You can find a work of art, even one depicting something terrible, fascinating without ‘endorsing’ its morality.

[bettyguerrero]

He was great...not a good husband but a great, genius painter!!

[fischkopf]

Great character and great genius. Picasso is a true amazing jewel in human history.

[robinsierra]

That’s absurd to call him a cubist. His art was extremely varied throughout his entire life

[perspicaciouscritic]

"It is too late to demand penance from the dead. But it is not too late to demand a modicum of decency from the living." – Art critic Deborah Solomon

Source: Picasso Love Him? Hate Him? 50 Years After His Death, 2 Arguments - The New York Times

[joeybaseball]

Putting 2023 standards on a guy who died 50 years ago is crazy.

[Brianthomas]

He was a genius and an innovative thinker. He was also not a perfect person. So many great artists were deeply flawed, which one can say fueled their art. Why do we feel the need to cancel him now? I have always loved Paloma and appreciate her candor. Let the man alone!

[steveconn]

Aren't we tired of judging artists and public figures of the past by today's 20/20, seemingly all-wise morays and critical mediocrities? The men were different, the women were different, shaped by poverty, war, desperation. As Elsa sang let it go. Paloma is a great jewelry artist, her dad was a monumental genius (great Picasso show at the De Young in 2011, his Paris museum a must-see, and John Richardson's unfinished biographies are good but Robert Hughes piece in 'His Nothing If Not Critical' book of essays on artists ('He looks like he spent his final years in a masquerade ball at a bordello') is both witty and psychologically insightful. Always get something from the incalculable Picasso.

[skipbayless]

“In the Me Too era” lmaooo what a joke. Picasso is a genius and nothing will change it.

[devernepersonal]

i am not looking at his paintings because i care about who he was. i am looking at his paintings to see what he expressed. . i dont need to care how he was as a boyfriend to the people he was with just because i want to appreciate his art.

[RocksOff]

So tired of demanding that we judge those that are long gone by today's standards. Don't go throwing stones at glass houses. We're all guilty of acting in ways at times that are less than desirable.

[MaryBravado-wyiq]

I LOVE EVERYTHING ARTISTIC ABOUT PICASSO

[tonyde]

What is the POINT of all of the JUDGEMENT? let it go already. He is gone. Consider the GENIUS that he WAS, and a MASTER !

[billyonthewheels]

If you stick around long enough and gain any notoriety, somebody is coming for you. So, if we decide to do this to everyone, all the art from literature, art and music will disappear.

[VoodooCosmonaut]

A hundred years from now, we will still be studying Picasso and no one will remember art critic Deborah Solomon. Thank god.

[larrysouthern]

Mr Picasso is the artist that everyone loves to hate...



If he had done anything else...



He would probably have been fired..


He did the right thing...


👀...

[BrianRoberson-kg]

Picasso Moon, blinding ball,
Spinning fire, the lightning calls
Picasso Moon, fall into the sky
Rarin' out, I'm gonna testify
And stare a shout into that burning eye,
Bigger than a drive-in movie, oh my.
Bigger than a drive-in movie, oh my.

[ramiyazje]

This applies to politics as well btw, I mean the complexity and multiplicity of people and situations,

[sonicspindash]

1) A famous man once wrote a letter to his future wife, in said letter he's quoted as telling her to "Expect neither intimacy, nor fidelity." That man was Albert Einstein. Yeah, #metoo should should definitely go after him next.

2) Query: who were the power of attorneys of the women that he dated? I mean clearly, there's no such thing as "agency"; every single one of these women were never in control. At all. Pablo had all of the power...except for Gilot who left him. I mean, it would appear that Gilot was a full grown woman who made a decision about her life, but that can't be right as that doesn't fit the narrative of this hit piece, right? Nah, that's crazy talk.

3) Yeah, all the men have to be cancelled. Got it. 'Cause it's not like famous people, regardless of gender, aren't complex and may have any idiosyncrasies, peccadilloes, odd or rough edges. I mean, Nina Simone was bipolar, used to pull guns on people and ended up being estranged from her daughter who, in her own words, said that her mother nearly drove her to suicide; I'm SO certain the #metoo era will come for her next.

'Cause you can't separate the art from the artist, right? Right? Right?