Picasso and politics
May 20th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: International, Random Shanghai stuff...Article here.
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This is a tricky issue, in other words, pulling in many directions. It’s much trickier than anything acknowledged in Picasso: Peace and Freedom. This is a show that surveys the last 30 years of the artist’s life – he died in 1973 – and looks for connections between his art and various political causes. And basically, that’s it. It’s one of those exhibitions that should really be a book, except, if it were, it would have to have more critical perspective. What we have is (a) any conceivable cross-reference, however tenuous or implausible, between painting and politics (b) all political causes viewed as good things, simply because they are “politics” (c) the content and form of art treated at the most superficial level. All the same, there is some matter here worth looking at.
