Pablo picasso video biography of oscar 2017

It’s not always easy to like Picasso the man. He treated others, especially women, as provisional muses who could be disregarded once the flame died out, or another crossed his path who made it bigger and brighter.

(Or yet a common third scenario: the artist would juggle multiple women and take advantage of them simultaneously.) Too often he viewed human beings as objects, not as persons to be genuinely respected. And he callously played out this cycle again and again and again.

Picasso the artist is easier to admire — though as someone whose life and work was so intimately tied together, we can never really examine one part without considering the other.

Pablo picasso video biography of oscar 2017

But regardless of his moral failings, Picasso has had an unequaled influence on 20th century art. His restless imagination, stimulated by robust sexual drives and ceaseless creativity, produced art that can’t be ignored, even if you find much of it grotesque.

Behind The Artist, a series presented by Let’s Pix, gives view