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Re: Was Picasso Apolitical?
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, January 21 2011, 16:05:40 (UTC)
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I agree that Picasso was a committed revolutionary, in art and politics....he exiled himself from Spain when Franco and the Nazis won.

My take on his painting "Guernica" is that it is not the painting itself that is sensational but the degree to which Picasso, as a human bean, was tormented by that act in particular. Unlike those who followed, Picasso was a master artist from the very earliest...if he chose to put two eyes on one side of a face it was because he CHOSE to do it, for a reason....society was going through such an upheaval that any sensitive human bean couldn't help but experience an inner revolution as well, and included style and technique in art...Picasso FELT the revolution, intuitively.

Those who followed were merely thrilled to think they wouldn't have to put in the years of hard work Picasso did, they could just paint in the "abstract". I don't care for much of his work, but I can see his genius, as a human...he wasn't the nicest lover from what I read but that's another issue...no one can be completely revolutionary...the human psyche may not be able to stand it.

I too always disliked Dali, as an artist...he too is a genius draftsman and painter...but as a human he left a lot to be desired...those who knew him personally, and who I know of and respect, such as Anais Nin, said all his stuff was staged and deliberate...she also said that of all those in the Surrealist Movement, and she most of them, only Henry Miller was for real.....I agree with that too.



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