Was Picasso Political???

[Rakhmetov]

The sick and degenerate mind of those who try to portray Picasso as apolitical!!!!!

http://www.counterpunch.com/navarro01202011.html

[Hoipolloi Cassidy]

Thanks, but I wouldn't call Richardson sick and degenerate, just typical of a kind of culture-whore that's pretty common these days. There are many, many writers and many journals built on sustaining the argument that culture or art is not "political," e.g. the New Yorker. For some reason, though, nobody seems to be too interested in disproving, for instance, that Picasso was briefly involved with Charles Maurras' far right racist movement circa 1904...

[Fawkes]

"Picasso is a painter, so am I
Picasso is a Spaniard, so am I
Picasso is a communist, neither am I"

His artwork was at times very political, but as far as how active he was, most sources indicate that he wasn't very.

[brigadista]

i saw the Dream and Lie of Franco by Picasso in the Prado and all i can say is no wonder he couldn't go back to spain -after that work he would have been straight into Franco's torture chambers

[blake 3:17]

I'd love to see the show. He was very clearly a fellow traveller. He was an artist before anything else and it's pretty difficult to really pin him down. I can't think of another artist who did top calibre work over 60 years and opened as many doors as he did. He went through several stages or periods where that 4 or 5 years could easily stand as a life time's work.