Pablo Picasso - Sex and painting

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Often, there are a combination of the creative process with some form of dependence, often alcohol or drugs. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), a brilliant example of combining creativity with hypersexuality, or erotic relationship.

In three years, Pablo Picasso had owned a pencil "to perfection, incomprehensible to the infant who is learning to speak the first words." But on the other hand, "to six years in a boy with difficulty reading and writing and showed a complete inability to arithmetic.

Each morning, the maid's hand dragging in the school Beat in hysterics Pablo. But sitting at his desk, he could not concentrate. Whatever was discussed in class, he was absorbed only drawing. The parents strongly disapproved of early art samples boy, just then, and appeared "his savage self-conceit, bordering on cynicism and rudeness, and faith in himself as a single star in the sky fog prolonged. So the parents had every reason to fear that his son will grow ignorant. "It is interesting to imagine what would happen with a little Pablo today if most of his time and energy went into the acquisition of knowledge ... to which his mind was not receptive."

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We have enough youth and behavioral anomalies. Picasso, for example, was afraid to get a haircut, and not at a young age, and as an adult. "For months, he wore his hair too long and did not dare go to the hairdresser ... usually end up that he asked the family to shorten his hair, and then locked himself in a small room and tried in vain to cut his hair himself." This phobia can be considered phobia.

Pablo Picasso with the same force and carried away the occult, and sex, although he always stressed that in the first place he is creative. With fifteen years he spent "countless hours in the brothels." Until his death, sex and painting were the two most passionate hobbies of genius.

Some biographers have tended to find his manifestation of the Oedipus complex: "My father was tall, dark, handsome, slender, with an elegant gait. Picasso also was low (158 cm), stocky and unattractive. Picasso rejected the man who represented in his eyes, the quintessence of masculinity ... It was during this period, Picasso entered the bohemian and took the surname of the mother.

In the artist most strangely mingled genius and depravity, violence and creativity. When his mistress Marie-Therese Walter, was asked what made him happy, she replied: "First he raped a woman ... and then worked. Most of Picasso's life with great pleasure that pit each of his mistresses and wives. His sex life has served as a catalyst for his art, and countless love affairs and then "diabolical manner sublimated" in his paintings.

Long life of the artist, who had hundreds of love affairs and have enormous sexual magnetism, fully confirms the adage according to which Spain - a country in which men despise sex, but live for it. "In the morning - church, in the afternoon - corrida, in the evening - a brothel" - this motto Spanish macho religiously adhered to Picasso. The artist himself said that the art and sexuality - are one and the same.

Picasso came to the world of "predator" and remained so until the end of the day. Not surprisingly, that "every time a new passion is even younger ... The artist lived for himself, demanded that the world revolves around him, and sometimes it seems that he acted as an energy vampire ... There is no doubt that women are fed his creativity." The artist himself liked to say that life is only to prolong the work and women: the age of 80 he was married to Jacqueline Rock, one of his mistresses.

Eccentricities Picasso do a lot of dislike, but he liked the attention of the press, and to maintain interest to him, he was often reckless in terms of ordinary logic actions. He was a true master of the stage and could go to the very risky move, if only it was picked up by an enthusiastic audience. Painter persistently taught the world to their own extravagance. This was manifested in hysterical component of his personality, which is usually closely linked to sexual.

The psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung saw in the artist's works symptoms of schizophrenia. The point of view the scientist explained as follows: schizophrenic "creates works instantly issuing their detachment from the senses ... The work leaves the viewer indifferent or concerned about its paradoxical, grotesque insensitivity and uncertainty. To this group belongs to Picasso ".

Most biographers continue to confidently communicate his creative process with hypersexuality. One of them explains the emergence of the famous "blue period" (1900 - 1904 years.) In the works of the painter, when most of the paintings were made in blue, green and blue colors. Picasso slept with the mistress of his best friend and was struck with grief when he learned of treason favorite, had committed suicide.

"This has led to the creation of paintings by Picasso's" blue period ", the first of which was painting" Funeral Kasehemasa "..."

Suffering from lack of money, and depression, arguing with parents, tormented by fear, Picasso confessed to a simple principle: "In my palette - only the blue" - the color of the deepest depression and despondency. "At the beginning of the" blue period ", he survived a very serious neurological disorder and even for some time was on the verge of suicide. In the "blue period" depression gushing out of him like blood from a broken artery ... Needless to say, that Picasso is not only fiercely attacked unjustly, hosted by the world, but that the "blue period" was raised from the bottom of his sexual fears? .. This brings us to the assumption that Picasso suffered from venereal disease, and treatment of syphilis in the era when there was not invented penicillin, which was so painful that anyone could induce the "blue period" works. " Images from the notebook of that period (the image of men without genitals) suggest biographer to the idea that an artist could suffer at this time of impotence.

In 1904 - 1906 years, colors paintings the artist has changed, and it began to dominate the pinkish-gold color. His biographers call it being "pink period" in the works of Picasso. And in this case can be traced a curious relationship with sexuality. "The first years in Paris, Picasso was selling himself, not to starve. He was kept by Max Jacob, a gay artist who considered himself a poet, and many others, and even organized a fraudulent lottery to earn money for food ... For twenty-five years of Picasso came close to greatness. His masterpiece, overturning all of the art, "Girls of Avignon", was completed in 1907, opening an orgy of surrealism in painting, which was about was to begin with a light hand of Picasso. This painting is widely recognized precursor of Cubism.

At this time the artist began to design its shape from the geometric forms in an effort to combine the sensation of a plane and a sense of volume. Not a chance that this year the Picasso lived a peculiar experience of opium? He noted his influence on his work with the following words: "bestows a strange way - and at the same time discourage capture them on canvas. Later, Picasso never taken drugs, despite the fact that smoking opium gave him pleasure.

This artist, moved by the stunning manic force, created a year over three hundred paintings. So what Picasso did not call playboy. Ilya Ehrenburg recalled: "He works every day from morning till night. About him not to say that he is industrious, - in the work he truly irrepressible ".

Alexander Shuvalov