A.R. MoxonIf I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.
lucindacatchlove.bsky.socialAlso, as someone who got to see a lot of Picasso paintings in person as a child, I can tell you that the violence of Picasso towards women is indeed in his work and not separate from it. That an adult man can't see that is about what they don't personally bring to the art really.
Speaking of Picasso and violence towards women, Kent Monkman's use of Picasso-esque female figures in his work is incredibly powerful and masterful. www.elektramontreal.ca/bian-2024/th...
Kent Monkman, The Transfigurat...
Kent Monkman, The Transfigurat...
Kent Monkman, The Transfiguration | Biennale ELEKTRA 2024
In The Transfiguration, Miss Chief disembarks from her limo amid a picturesque, painted Italian villagescape to perform a ceremony over the twisted body of a reclining Picasso nude. As the result of her ministrations, the body releases a spirit in the form of an angel. “The Modernists such as Picasso deconstructed, with considerable violence, the female nude,” says Monkman “I have been using Picasso’s butchered female nudes to talk about the European assault on the female spirit. Many indigenous cultures are matriarchal and were not respected or understood by patriarchal European societies.”