On the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, the website of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle published an article accusing the Spanish painter of “toxic masculinity”. The artist’s legacy would be overshadowed by “misogyny and mistreatment of wives, muses and lovers, divided between ‘goddesses and doormats’”.
“In the beginning, Picasso deified these women, but later he treated them like scum”, says the article, about the painter’s relationships. “Two of them, Marie Thérèse Walther and Jacqueline Roque, committed suicide after the painter’s death.” The text even describes the artist as someone “sadistic and manipulative”.
Pablo Picasso would also be an “unscrupulous artist”. That’s because the frame Ladies of Avignon, of 1907, allegedly despises the feminine. “It is simply inconceivable to think of such a catastrophic painting”, states the text. “The five cornered women in the life-size image return just such destructive energy.”
In another paragraph, a feminist historian is scheduled to say that people have to stay away from Pablo Picasso, because of the painter’s supposed toxic masculinity. The article also cites a women’s movement that questioned the museum in honor of the artist, in Munich, Germany. That’s because a person with these characteristics should not receive a tribute, in the 50 years of his death.
Read also: “A Internacional da Censura”, article by Flávio Gordon published in Issue 157 of Revista Oeste