(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) World-renowned 20th-century artist Pablo Picasso is in the process of being canceled by contemporary art critics for his treatment of women, France 24 reported.
Despite promoting all forms of sexual deviation at every possible moment, the world of art criticism has decided that Picasso–who had two wives, six mistresses, and innumerable lovers–must be scrubbed from the history of art.
According to Cecile Debray, director of the Picasso Museum in Paris, the famous artist’s reputation has been especially tarnished by the #MeToo movement and its subsequent spinoffs.
“Obviously MeToo tarnished the artist,” she said.
Debray also emphasized that Picasso’s great stature as an artist contributes to the lust to cancel him because he reminds modern critics of their own mediocrity.
“The attacks are undoubtedly all the more violent because Picasso is the most famous and popular figure in modern art — an idol that must be destroyed.”
In 2017 French journalist Sophie Chauveau wrote a book detailing the sexual exploits of the famous artist titled “Picasso, the Minotaur.”
She claimed in the book that the artist was “violent… jealous… perverse… destructive”.
This book began the cancellation attempt, which has reignited in recent weeks among critics. Parisian and Barcelonan museums are holding conferences next month with both art historians and sociologists to determine the future of Picasso’s place in art.
Given the list of those invited, it seems that the question has already been answered.
Debray also argued that attacks on Picasso are “anachronistic” and often rely on “conjecture and assertions without historical references”.
She also noted that we cannot simply look back on the past and wipe it from our minds, that one of art’s purposes is to draw back the mind to other times.
“The history of art is nourished by the questions of our time and new generations.”
