Art - O - Gram: Picasso - The Artist, Life and Love - Scene 5

Picasso's life and his loved ones - especially in relation to Picasso's relationship with and to women an endless topic, on which serious artists and excited feminists, outraged petty bourgeois and imaginative cookbook authors, confused social scientists and envious boulevard journalists from probably every conceivable viewing angle.

The artist lifestyle and his relationships with women have already been dissected thoroughly enough, and it is probably not that important who shares why and which bed. Nevertheless, a overall view of Picasso does not quite avoid taking a look at his lifestyle and love - both are puzzle parts of the "People Picassos" , both also influenced his art.

Therefore, a sketch in 7 scenes follows the private side of the artist - an intensely lived life.

Scene 5: Suddenly no longer born for marriage or learned from experience?

Picasso has now had a marriage and has had some experiences with his wife Olga that he didn't really like. His wife Olga wanted to live a life in the middle of bourgeois society because of her husband's prominence with many small triumphs; In the "safe port of marriage" she really saw the safe port of marriage, with children's production and raising children as new tasks.

At that time, the Olga - as a guide to a after -snack gymnastics that brought the body back into the old form, was not yet conceived and was not common - also made it unable to continue working in her job after the son Paulo was born. If it had been conceivable at that time that mothers continue to work as a ballet dancer.

The transition from an artistic activity to teaching, wellness ballet lessons by a specialist for citizens who simply enjoy physical exercise was not an option at the time - citizens did not train their bodies, and for artists it was difficult enough to get access to bourgeois society at all.

At first glance, Olga had no choice but to devote herself to her children and her husband; In terms of her husband, she was primarily able to give him appearances in society in which he could boast of his works and she could boast of him.

Picasso ranked a lot with his work and spoke to educated people of all possible professional groups about his works to boast of his work in front of rather uninterested laypersons, he was less interested in him.

A child with whom one could not speak, he was interested in the subject of an outrageous childish creativity and also like to cuddle tender, but not as a educational task.

And social appearances didn't interest him at all, although he had actually married Olga so that she gave him access to this society. Picasso quickly found that social appearances bored him and even contradicted him, also because they held him from his work.

In this rather unfortunate constellation there was certainly some space, especially for Olga to deepen the relationship with Picasso. By being interested in his work by accepting that he was not so well suited as a party farm by participating in his creative interest in the son together.

It is also certain how unsure it is that Olga would have been a Picasso in the long run with a lot of effort. Picasso was a real high -flyer, in addition to such an artist, only one woman can survive with a strong passion anyway. Or a woman who can also make her partner's life's work with her own living content with his perfect acceptance and respect.

It has just been mentioned that Olga had lost her passion in connection with the birth of her son. If she had had or developed other interests, it would not have been possible to pursue them anyway, she had to raise a son.

Education alone - as an exciting, creative and demanding task - was no longer considered sufficient in intellectual circles in times of increasing equality of women.

However, the mother's educational work alone was customary, even if the father did not do a job that often and gladly occupied him day and night. A trap from which mothers have not freed themselves to this day, politics and society have been watching for a very long time how women work in this forced position to exhaustion and are limited to whining that the Germans are slowly extinct.

Especially at Picasso, he wanted to do something from Olga (introduction to bourgeois society), from which he quickly noticed that he actually didn't want it. Picasso did not allow Olga that in addition to her role as a mother as a mother as her life as her life content.

In order to teach and promote them, Picasso had no time and probably no desire; Contrary to all good intentions at the wedding, not being restricted to Olga as the only woman in his life. If Olga is often not subject to enough intellect for further development, Picasso could have discovered this deficiency safely before sitting in the trap, that would have been fairer.

But life is not fair, and Olga has had her trap of Picasso/exhibitions/Picasso-Hute-Alle-ALLe-exhibitions-50-death-day-The-Spanish-kuenstler legend/rather comfortable, until her death in 1955 because she and Picasso were never divorced.

A lot was written about this fact, Picasso was said to have been a divorce from the exploitative Olga because he would have had to share his assets - certainly not just because Picasso had already brought considerable assets into the marriage (when it comes to the gap money value of Picasso's art , however, it would have to be questioned to what extent the sales value of his pictures has increased by the fact that Olga has increased him into the "payable society" had, who he was rather far from before marriage).

In any case, it was the case at the time that the assets, in the event of a divorce, were the rule in France at the time. Anyone who had brought in more had to be secured by separate contractual agreements, Picasso failed.

1927 - 1937: Marie - Thérèse Walter or the escape to the "dream"

So Picasso was pretty much overwhelmed by wife and paternity and was probably very ready for a change when he saw the then 17 -year -old Marie -Thérèse Walter in January 1927 in the "Galeries Lafayette" department store. He made her his model, then she became his secret lover.

At some point no longer secretly, but loved one remained from 1927 to 1937 - Olga Chochlowa wanted to divorce when she learned from the lover that Picasso did not want this because of the community of property and threatening loss of property; We leave it to you whether you classify this as a pragmatic correction of a failure or as a betrayal of the lover.

Marie - Thérèse appears countless times in Picasso's pictures. At the end of his life, in 1973, Picasso himself had 500 pictures, of which you can see over 50 Marie - Thérèse Walter. These include at least two pictures that are among the most expensive works of art in the world today:

The "Act with green leaves and bust" from 1932, which achieved a good 108 million US dollars at an auction in May 2010, and "Le Rêve" ("The Dream") from 1932. "Le Rêve" in the period that followed has in the article 'THE ART - O - Gramm: Picassos "Dream" or the unbelievable history of "Le Rêve “'' can read.

Picasso managed the escape from domestic reality that was offered by Marie - Thérèse Walter for a long time until it became pregnant. On October 5, 1935 (New Year's Eve?) Marie -Thérèse Mará de la Concepción (Maya) gave birth to Picasso, whereupon Picasso separates from his wife and is openly living with Marie - Thérèse Walter.

But his attitude to motherhood and young children has not changed since the experience with Paolo and Olga, children only disturb him a little more (as Picasso saw motherhood in 1905, you can see in the picture "Maternity" from the Rosa Perionde, as he saw them in 1971, "Maternity with on Apple").

1936 - 1943: Dora Maar - A proud panther becomes a crying cat

In 1936 Picasso met in a café in Saint - Germain - des - Prés Dora Maar. At that time she was 29, both beautiful and self -confident, Picasso was immediately enchanted by her dark beauty and her theatrical appearance, which was often garnished with a touch of violence.

She was probably the most blatant contrast to the blonde, friendly Marie - Thérèse Walter, who was thought, and maybe because of that because of that so quickly Picasso's lover. Dora Maar had studied painting and photography and was a well -known photography artist at the time.

She was on everyone mouth with the manipulated photography of a belt animal - Embryos called "Portrait d'uBu" ("Portrait of Ubu", inspired by Alfred Jarry's play König Ubu), which was becoming a symbol of the surrealists, in Paris and London.

This is not the only reason why the beauty with black hair and green eyes became the best known loved one, it was not a silent muse, but a companion that could give him the water. She was an interested communist and gained Picasso Contact Us e to politically committed intellectuals from her area, André Breton and Louis Aragon, for example.

And she worked with Picasso, she photographically documented his work from 1937, for example his well -known Guernica , and several other works. Dora Maar's picture series about Guernica was published in 1937 in a special edition of the art and literary magazine "Cahiers d'Art" , the first exhibition of her photographic work in a Paris gallery was in the same year.

As an artist, Picasso is said to have been fascinated by Dora Maar's puzzling charisma and her unapproachability, he made a whole series of portraits for which she was the model.

Picasso pictures on the "Topics Dora Maar" include incredibly diverse expressions, she appears as a dreamy and beautiful bird woman ( "Dora Maar en Forme d`oiseau" , 1936) and as a strong woman with arms raised ( "Femme aux Bras Leves [Tête de Dora Maar]" , 1936), as a naturalistic girl with a halo ( "Portrait de Dora Maar" , 1937), as a deformed figure with helpless facial features ( "Portrait de Dora Maar 4" , 1937) and later also as a woman who speaks in one direction and sees in which ( "Buste de femme [Dora Maar]" , 1942) - she seems to have been unapproachable not only for Picasso, but also often.

Dora Maar is also Picasso's "La femme qui pleure" , the "crying woman", who expresses his grief for his home country, which has been in the civil war since 1936, in the following links to the pictures you will find two of the many crying women.

A Picasso record is also included: The portrait "Dora Maar Au Chat" from 1941 (Dora Maar with cat) was auctioned in May 2006 at Sotheby's New York for 95.2 million US dollars, the second highest price ever paid at an auction, which "Dora Maar au Chat" for some time.

The cat in the famous picture is very small, and the woman does not look happy - Dora Maar is said to have competed for his affection with Marie - Thésee Walter during the time of her relationship with Picasso because Picasso did not want to make a decision and advised women to make out their rivalry among themselves.

Small warning for all post-born: to get involved in such a advice does not seem to be a very good idea-Marie-Thérèse Walter hanged himself in 1977, Dora Maar fell into depression after Picasso left her because of a 21-year-old.

To get involved with Picasso was probably not a good idea for a woman, at least not for women with a rather normal level of self -confidence and a healthy self -assessment and a certain minimum claim by her partner.

For Picasso it was very quickly overwhelmed, he was obviously easier for him to be aware than (outside of art), as he once said: "Braque is the wife who loved me the most." (found in "Der Mirrors ", issue 44/1963, www. mirrors .de/ ).

No wonder, his long -time friend of Georges Braque was known as extremely reserved, spoke little and very rarely about his art and endeavored to joint appearances, but extremely patiently, but extremely patiently that the sociable and talkative Picasso regularly claimed the perception of everyone present.

You can find out that you can even survive quite well without depression and suicide, that you can even survive Picasso quite well, even as a woman in the next scene of this article. More about Picasso's life-contrary to the impression that this article could give, not exclusively for women-and his work in the articles "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-a long life for art", "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-born the artist" , "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-an artist and three wars" , "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso-Famous Art- Secret ", " Art-O-Gramm: "Picasso-a guarantee for top ranking" and "Art-O-Gramm: Picasso today".