Most people think that artists are full of emotion and keen perception. Picasso certainly has strong lust, but he lacks deep empathy and sympathy for others. Picasso is keen to put his lover in the painting, but what he really cares about is the effect on the canvas and the self transformed in the painting. In his book The Success and Failure of Picasso, John Berger, an art critic, once said: "Picasso's portraits of women are often self-portraits in which he finds himself ..... He can only see himself completely when a woman completely reflects himself.
In the emotional world, Picasso was addicted to lust and power. He compared himself with the Minotaur image of half man and half beast in Greek mythology, which not only possessed the lover, but also ravaged the lover. Picasso often taunts Mar aimlessly. When Mar is wronged and cries, he immediately takes out a sketch book to draw her crying. In fact, Picasso's lovers all came to a bad end: one died of illness, one had a nervous breakdown, two died of suicide, and one couldn't bear mental torture. After divorce, he wrote a biography to expose Picasso's private life.
In p>1937, Picasso completed the later cubist classic "The Crying Woman" based on the crying appearance of Mar. The lines in the painting are abrupt, the colors are strong, and the woman's face is broken and distorted. Mar has become the most sad woman in the history of art. Many critics believe that The Weeping Woman shows the masculinity and misogyny of men, and also shows the power relationship between Picasso and Mar: a tyrant in love stares at a sad lover coldly, and the lover is willing to submit to the cross-levy of love despite crying.
Mar is no match for Picasso. Her younger Picasso was twenty-six years old, and her passion for photography was far less important to Picasso than painting. Picasso even forced two lovers to make friends with each other and maintain a threesome relationship after he found another lover. Mar gradually became insane, and on the verge of collapse, she lost a sentence to Picasso: "As a painter, you are extraordinary, but morally you are worthless!"
Even so, when talking about Picasso's achievements, people still only say the first half of this sentence, or reverse the order of this sentence. Doramar, a scarred myth, lived in Picasso's shadow for the rest of her life, poor and depressed. Apart from the artistic legend after dinner and the image of "crying woman", she is only one of the "lovers of artists" after all. (Text/Keren Stone)
Gauguin and his Tahiti woman
PaulGauguin, together with Van Gogh and Cezanne, are the three giants of "post-impressionism". As an epoch-making artist, what he hates most is European civilization, and what he yearns for most is to "die in a wild paradise, walk among palm trees and paint ..." He finally got his wish, and his passion for life pushed him to the wild Tahiti and put his works of art on the stage of world-class masters. When he died in the Marquis Islands in 193, only indigenous people accompanied him.
Gauguin is not only a master of art, but also an expert in writing. When I was in Tahiti, I ran a newspaper "Smile" and took solace in attacking local French people all day. He even published a book at his own expense, where is the passion of life-a trip to Gauguin Tahiti, and recorded his adventures, the happy days when he married a local scholar, the customs and customs of Tahiti, etc ...
Master, Wild, Ill, Wild, Curious ... String these marks into a person's trajectory, and ask, "Where is the passion of life?"
the following is an excerpt from "where is the passion of life-a trip to Gauguin Tahiti", written by paul gauguin.
As a man and a male painter, Gauguin's life is always full of women, whether in his private life or in his works. According to the data, Gauguin said excitedly after watching the Paris World Expo: "I will set up a tropical studio and welcome everyone to visit." "Come and buy a hut like the one we saw at the World Expo ... The women there are gentle, and I think the local women will be very willing to be my models." Gauguin, who is about to go to Tahiti, doesn't seem to be worried that his female popularity will be affected in a foreign country. He, the "best man in Montmartre", confidently went to Tahiti and began his original pursuit.
Tahiti, a land where primitive traditions are mixed with the new world, still has its own national insistence on men and women. On the island, men and women are strengthened by the breeze from the forest and the sea, and their shoulders and hips are widened and thickened. The inconspicuous gender simplifies their relationship respectively. They are naked all year round, which frees each other from the fantasy of "mystery" and also frees them from the color of obscurity and abuse.
The relationship between men and women is not so much lovers as comrades or friends. When it comes to the pursuit between men and women, Tahiti women are willing to be captured by strong men. Their faces are full of pride and unique self-confidence, and they remain calm with an air of urging men to act. There is a saying in Tahiti: "A man without a woman is not a real man."
Gauguin's first female companion was a prostitute of half gross profit and half British descent named Titi. Titi is not the wild bride Gauguin dreamed of, she is proud of her half white blood. However, for men wandering in the street, Didi is just a prostitute at the drop of a hat; For Gauguin, the same is true. Titi is only the object to meet his physiological needs.
Gradually, Gauguin's attitude towards her love of money and vanity became more and more unbearable. It seems that it is only a matter of time before she is dumped! Finally, after Gauguin decided to move to Matthias, Titi began to look for a new man. When Gauguin lived in Matthias, although he gradually got used to the local life and made new friends, he was afraid of women and did not dare to take action.
despite his unbearable loneliness, the support of his neighbors and even the encouraging eyes of the women in Tahiti, he still chose to stay put.
During a short expedition, he found his Tahiti bride, Tiha Amana, also known as Tihula, who was only 13 years old. Gauguin was so intoxicated with the ecstasy of love that he even felt a little naive, but with the young Tihula, he regained his confidence again. During this period, Tihula naturally became Gauguin's first model, such as the paintings "The Dead Watching", "The Ancestors of Tiha Amana" and some wooden heads, all of which were the embodiment of Tihula. Gauguin and Tihula are not only companions in life, but also exchange cultural differences with each other, especially Gauguin, who got precious Maori religious legends from Tihula. With these oral materials, Gauguin also created several related paintings, such as "Her name is Vera Omati". Although Tihula sometimes appears ignorant and naive behavior, Gauguin still gets along well with her in general.
One night, Tihula told Gauguin that she was pregnant, and Gauguin even had the idea of staying to raise and educate his children, but just then, he didn't receive the remittance from France, so he was faced with great difficulties. So he raised the idea of going back to France and told Tihula to just go back and deal with things and come back when it was all over. However, this farewell is actually two years later ...
Gauguin came to Tahiti. In fact, it was also the life in Tahiti that attracted him deeply. Here, he saw the "original magnificence". Besides painting, he doesn't need to engage in other annoying jobs, and he can also avoid the attention and pressure of artists and critics.
but two years later, in 1895, when he returned to Tahiti again, many things could no longer be compared with the past. Even if he supported Gauguin, his behavior was not much nobler than that of other colonists. He has several lovers, and even after contracting syphilis, he still enjoys it. Moreover, these lovers are only 13 or 14 years old, and this evil behavior is not only unacceptable in Europe, but also in Tahiti, which has caused people's anxiety and criticism.
In short, in Gauguin's life, women come and go, some are models, some leave the afterglow of revelry, some have given birth to children for him, and some have left beautiful memories for him. What we can be sure is that women are definitely one of the important sources of Gauguin's life, art and inspiration.
I don't know much about Pablo Picasso. I found it when I looked up the information. Maybe the artist's inspiration comes from these unlikely relationships.