He may have been the most important artist of the last century, but Pablo Picasso is not exempt from cancel culture. Half a century after the revered Spanish painter and sculptor died, there are calls for the “monstrous misogynist” and “cultural appropriator” to be be censored.
Picasso exhibitions in Paris (until August 27th) and Brooklyn (June 2nd to September 24th) are set to become battlegrounds in this debate.
The Guardian has compiled a range of views about the artist, including that of art critic Eliza Goodpasture:
Picasso’s brand of greatness is characterised by loudness, scale, grit, originality, celebrity and overall shock-and-awe value. It is also distinguished by a macho, lusty masculinity. His notorious cruelty and misogyny are arguably as famous as his paintings. Picasso’s life and art were made possible by the work of women: his wives and mistresses who cared for him and organised his life, and of course the models and muses who fill his paintings. These women could not have stood where he stood behind the canvas, in brothels and bars and on battlefields, thinking of nothing but work. The lurid radicality of his art rests on a wanton disregard for the humanity of the women he painted and slept with.
Even as other ‘great artists’ are beginning to be held to account, Picasso has clung on to his status as the most important, and most famous, artist of the 20th century. Genius transcends misogyny, apparently. It is impossible to separate Picasso’s work from his life, and equally impossible to escape the legacy of his enormous oeuvre. But we can escape the narrow definition of ‘great’ that limits the history of art to men like Picasso.
The canon is not fixed and unchangeable: it is constantly being re-evaluated. What if great art included work that is subtle, nuanced, quiet, small, challenging and complicated? Imagine if a great artist could be any gender, any race – or even a person who valued the humanity of others. Who else might be a household name?
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When I was in Ottawa, Wuebec City and Montreal last year and Van outer few years ago, they all seemed remarkably white save for a few of Asian appearance.
if you want to see what is referred to as diversity go to LB Newham.
It was hardly shambolic. In lockstep with the rest of the so-called rich liberal democracies.
Quite the epic dirt-dishing thread on Turdeau here. I always thought this Castro business was all tongue in cheek but it’s looking like another conspiracy theory turned fact going by this detective work;
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1685098191023173632
Simon Goddeck does do epic threads too. Here he is demonstrating the outright lunacy that suckered so many people in, nailing it with number 1. People should be ashamed for falling for any of this Monty Pythonesque nonsense;
”#1. Remember when being symptomless was considered one of the symptoms? The lie that one could be asymptotically ill, along with fraudulent PCR tests, only made this plandemic possible. Either you are sick, or you aren’t; being healthy was not a symptom of illness until 2020.”
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1686146653818949633
This gets another in a long line of eye-rolls from me.
Articles like this cement the idea that there was a health emergency and that nations could have a good or a bad ‘response’ to it. Can we please get real?!
Spot on
Playing into the hands of the enemy
Do some research on Dr. Robert Kadlec of the US Biosecurity Organization. Any article about the origins and management of the covid response is either ignorant or whitewashing. This was a well planned operation. The amazing result that was found is how extensive and easy it was to control the masses.
Here is the film of Matt Hancock running from questions put by Heiko Khoo: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97_YfgJvJw
Is it too much to ask for The Daily Sceptic to provide updates from Canada’s ‘National Citizen’s Inquiry’? On the evidence so far, that will be much more informative and interesting than updates from the ‘Hallett Inquiry’.
Well it started way before the Covid response. Turdeau really knows how to hold a grudge doesn’t he? What a massive sh*thead Nazi he is!! It would appear that kindness is now illegal in Canada. Was it not Martin Luther King who said something about it being our moral duty to disobey unjust laws? Well this guy has a lot of ‘form’ and is an actual saint. I sincerely hope for his sake there is still some justice to be found in that country because if what he did, the compassionate treatment he consistently demonstrated over the years, now constitutes as crime then where does that leave real life criminals such as dictator Turdeau? No wonder he always looks so bloody smug, he gets to mistreat the citizens and commit crimes with impunity!
”In 2005, he began serving and ministering to downtown Calgary—Alberta’s poor and downtrodden. “In other words, feeding the homeless and praying for them, which is now illegal,” he described to The Epoch Times in a telephone interview while under house arrest in Calgary following his court conviction in May for inciting mischief and violating his release conditions.
The police eventually showed up at Mr. Pawlowski’s church, telling him he couldn’t feed the homeless by law. Neither was he allowed to assemble or preach in public.
Such actions are also illegal and punishable with tickets, fines, and even jail time.
“They even have laws on the books that distributing printed materials—Bibles and Gospel tracts—is illegal. So I got tickets for that,” Mr. Pawlowski said.
He added that tensions with the authorities had reached the point where police showed up at his church weekly.
During the pandemic, he received 40 tickets for COVID-19 violations, including one for a Christmas celebration he said drew a response from over 100 police officers, 52 police vehicles, as well as anti-terrorism units.
On Aug. 9, Mr. Pawlowski, a native of Poland and an acolyte of the “Solidarity Movement,” could receive up to 10 years in prison for the charge of “inciting mischief” during Canada’s nationwide trucker protests last year.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadian-pastor-convicted-inciting-mischief-trucker-protests-facing-10-years-prison
Back in the day, preachers were also harassed, persecuted and imprisoned. I’m talking about the years after Jesus Christ.
“criticising Canada’s response to the Covid pandemic”
There was no pandemic
They say that you get the politicians you deserve and I think it fair to say that the Canadians deserve Trudeau.
No mention of the preacher that ******* **** Trudeau imprisoned for opening his church and holding services during lockdown. Now looking to do him for TEN years.
Sadly, Trudeau is NOT Saul of Tarsus. But there’s a few blokes from the last century he’s closely allied to.
A Savage Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing.