This is a combined episode page for the three part episode on Picasso. All the resources for that episode will be contained on this page. Here are the embeded audio links for each episode as well.
Here are the Content Warnings for these episodes: domestic abuse, alcoholism, suicide, emotional manipulation, assault
In the series of challenges by listener JJ, we were tasked to talk about the terror that was Picasso. M is the presenter, bringing in their already burning dislike of the man and sharpening it to a fine point by speaking about the women in his life to show the long shadows that Picasso cast while alive. We speak about his past, we interpret his art, and in the end, what we come out with is that Picasso is a PicAsso.
In this part two in our talk about Picasso, we talk about the man’s art and how he related to some of the artists around him, his psychology (with a little armchair diagnosing), and we start in on talking about Francoise, a really amazing woman who got all wrapped up in Picasso’s mess. She wrote an amazing autobiography that M will be relating stories from to paint a detailed picture of the guy Picasso was in his later years.
In our third and final part about Picasso, we talk about Francoise and her relationship with him in its entirety. She was amazing, and their relationahip was wild and toxic. Francoise wrote an amazing autobiography that M will be relating stories from to paint a detailed picture of the guy Picasso was in his later years. We also, finally, talk about Picasso’s death and the aftermath.
Let’s just start with a picture of Picasso so people can know what the man looks like.
And then here’s some pictures of some of Picasso’s early art, before he started getting weird with it. He did these when he was a pre-teen and early teen.
Finally, an image of where Picasso was living when he first started out trying to become a well-known artist. This is the Bateau-Lavoir.
Now let’s do a slideshow of the women in Picasso’s life.
Now to start in with the links. If you click on this book, it will take you to the Amazon page where you can buy the memoir for Francoise, one of Picasso’s wives. She’s pretty great, and we spend episode 2 talking almost extensively about her. M quotes heavily from this book.
This article goes through the women in the slideshow with pictures of the women, pictures of them with Picasso, and pictures of the artwork that Picasso created of them.
This article talks about how Picasso used the women in his life for his art without regard for how it effected them, focusing mainly in Marie Therese and his daughter Maya, who was 82 at the time this article was written.
This article goes through the Picasso family tree. That’s his mother, father, sisters, and his children.
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