{"id":12032,"date":"2022-04-04T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:39:45","slug":"cancelling-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/04\/04\/cancelling-picasso\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancelling Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from France24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Picasso being cancelled?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Fifty years after his death, the debate around Pablo Picasso’s treatment of women is only getting more heated\u00a0– AFP\/File<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pablo Picasso’s track-record with women certainly would not make him a feminist pin-up today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were two wives, at least six mistresses and countless lovers — with a tendency to abandon women when they became ill, a voracious appetite for prostitutes, and some eye-popping age differences (his second wife was 27 when he married her at 79).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the quotes attributed to him would probably cause Twitter’s servers to combust if he said them now (“For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this is new — it has been recycled through books and articles from (sometimes traumatised) family members since soon after his death in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in a post-MeToo world, it poses a challenge for those who manage his legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from France24 Is Picasso being cancelled? Pablo Picasso’s track-record with women certainly would not make him a feminist pin-up today. There were two wives, at least six mistresses and countless lovers — with a tendency to abandon women when they became ill, a voracious appetite for prostitutes, and some eye-popping age differences (his second wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}