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毕加索 Part 04

The only wars Picasso had ever fought had been against the conventions of art. Oh, yes, he'd mostly been on the side of freedom, but that had always been creative, not political, freedom.

No wonder one of his best friends called Picasso, "The least political person I've ever known." What's happening in Picasso's studio is about as far from the barricades as you can get.

. . . . . . It's all very self-obsessed.

Politics and social conflict doesn't interest him at all in the 1920s. Instead, he's brooding on his calling.

So, lots of complicated, super-subtle images of the artist in the studio. Lots of reflections of and in mirrors.

Lots of models pulled this way and that. Body parts artfully rearranged.

. . . . . . He's also brooding on his increasingly tangled love life.

On their harrowing beach vacations, Picasso and his wife, Olga, were in constant conflict. And when he was feeling imprisoned by the relationship, his artistic distortions are grotesque.

Meet praying mantis woman, with her frighteningly toothed all-purpose orifice. . . . . . .

Not all of his images of women were brutal and predatory. When he starts painting Marie Therese, Picasso's jagged lines suddenly become as curvy and voluptuous as his lover's body.

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