Pablo Picasso Research Paper
Picasso’s Women
Picasso had a love/hate relationship with women. He was not an abuser, physically or verbally, but he did not always get along with them. He also couldn’t stay with one woman for a long time. After reading articles on Picasso, I learned that he had major relationships with several women throughout his life and fathered four children by three of them. His tumultuous and complicated love life can be seen through his art; the women often served as his artistic muses and are the subjects of many of his paintings. His first love which lasted 7 years was with Fernande Oliver (1881- 1966). She was credited for inspiring Picasso’s transition to the Rose Period. Later in his life, Picasso admitted that the figure from Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) was based on Oliver. She was also the model for his radical Head of Woman (1909), which is widely …show more content…
They were wed in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Paris in 1918 and had a son, Paulo, in 1921. In the works like Portrait of Olga in an Armchair (1918), Picasso portrays her in Spanish appearance to satisfy his mother, who had hoped her son would marry a Spanish woman. As a classical ballerina, Khokhlova perfectly personified the ideals of Picasso’s neoclassical period, which was characterized by a renewed interest in realistic representations of the human form. Khokhlova insisted that she only be painted in a flattering academic manner, but Picasso would not always comply. In The Village Dance (1922), it shows him and a partner emotionally estranged from one another, powerfully capturing his melancholy state of mind in this period, and “going through the motions” of his marriage. In The Minotaurmachy (1935) and Bullfight; Death of Torero (1935), Khokhlova is often represented by a horse, betrayed and even gored by Picasso in the guise of the mythological minotaur or Spanish bull. As his marriage deteriorated, Picasso met another
Picasso had a love/hate relationship with women. He was not an abuser, physically or verbally, but he did not always get along with them. He also couldn’t stay with one woman for a long time. After reading articles on Picasso, I learned that he had major relationships with several women throughout his life and fathered four children by three of them. His tumultuous and complicated love life can be seen through his art; the women often served as his artistic muses and are the subjects of many of his paintings. His first love which lasted 7 years was with Fernande Oliver (1881- 1966). She was credited for inspiring Picasso’s transition to the Rose Period. Later in his life, Picasso admitted that the figure from Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) was based on Oliver. She was also the model for his radical Head of Woman (1909), which is widely …show more content…
They were wed in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Paris in 1918 and had a son, Paulo, in 1921. In the works like Portrait of Olga in an Armchair (1918), Picasso portrays her in Spanish appearance to satisfy his mother, who had hoped her son would marry a Spanish woman. As a classical ballerina, Khokhlova perfectly personified the ideals of Picasso’s neoclassical period, which was characterized by a renewed interest in realistic representations of the human form. Khokhlova insisted that she only be painted in a flattering academic manner, but Picasso would not always comply. In The Village Dance (1922), it shows him and a partner emotionally estranged from one another, powerfully capturing his melancholy state of mind in this period, and “going through the motions” of his marriage. In The Minotaurmachy (1935) and Bullfight; Death of Torero (1935), Khokhlova is often represented by a horse, betrayed and even gored by Picasso in the guise of the mythological minotaur or Spanish bull. As his marriage deteriorated, Picasso met another