Which artist has the most lovers?

Picasso had a fascinating life and a lasting love history. The influence of his personal love history on his painting style has become a prominent research topic in art history. When Picasso lived in Paris in the1930s, he met a woman named Dora Maar in a cafe, and they hit it off immediately. Unlike other women who indulge in dew all night, Mar is a talented photographer. During the seven years of formal communication, she witnessed the creation process of the classic guernica with her camera, which also became the fallacy of many Picasso paintings. Although Picasso finally found another lover, Mar couldn't stand the blow and had a nervous breakdown.

Most people think that artists are full of emotion and keen perception. Picasso certainly has a strong lust, but he lacks deep empathy and sympathy for others. Picasso is keen on putting his lover in the painting, but what he really cares about is the effect on the canvas and the transformed himself in the painting. John berger, an art critic, once said in his book Picasso's Success and Failure: "The female portraits painted by Picasso are often the self-portraits in which he found himself ... Only when a woman reflects herself completely can he see herself completely. 」

In the emotional world, Picasso was addicted to desire and power. He compared himself to the minotaur image of half man and half beast in Greek mythology, which not only possessed his lover, but also ravaged his lover. Picasso often taunts Mark aimlessly. When Mar was wronged and cried, he immediately took out a sketch book to draw her crying. In fact, Picasso's lovers all came to a bad end: one died of illness, one had a nervous breakdown, two committed suicide, and one was unbearable mental torture. After the divorce, he wrote a biography to expose Picasso's private life.

1937, Picasso finished the later cubist classic "The Crying Woman" according to the way Mar cried. The lines in the painting are abrupt, the colors are strong, and the woman's face is broken and twisted. Mar has become the saddest woman in art history. Many critics think that crying women show men's masculinity and misogyny, and also show the power relationship between Picasso and Mar: a tyrant in love stares coldly at a sad lover, while the lover willingly succumbs to the cross-expropriation of love despite crying.

Mal is really no match for Picasso anywhere. Picasso was 26 when she was young. For Picasso, her passion for photography is far less important than painting. Picasso even forced two lovers to make friends with each other and maintain a threesome after finding another lover. Mar gradually went insane and was on the verge of collapse. She threw Picasso a sentence: "As a painter, you are extraordinary, but morally you are worthless!" " 」

Speaking of this, when it comes to Picasso's achievements, people still only say the first half of this sentence, or reverse the order of this sentence. Doramar, a scarred myth, lived in the shadow of Picasso for the rest of his life, poor and depressed. Apart from the artistic legend after dinner and the image of "crying woman", she is only one of the "artists' lovers" after all. (Text/Keren Stone)

Gauguin and his Tahitian woman

Paul gauguin, Van Gogh and Cezanne are also called the "post-impressionism" giants. As an epoch-making artist, what he hates most is European civilization, and what he yearns for most is "dying in a wild paradise, walking among palm trees and painting ..." He finally got his wish, and his passion for life pushed him to the wild Tahiti and his works of art onto the stage of world-class masters. 1903 when he died in marquez islands, he was only accompanied by aborigines.

Gauguin is not only a master of art, but also an expert in writing. When I was in Tahiti, I ran a newspaper, Smile, to comfort myself by attacking the local French all day. He also published a book at his own expense, where is the passion of life-a trip to Gauguin Tahiti, which recorded his adventures and adventures, the happy days of marrying local women, the customs of Tahiti and so on. ...

Master, wild, morbid, wild, curious ... string these marks into a person's trajectory and ask "where is the passion of life"?

The following is an excerpt from paul gauguin's "Where is the Passion of Life-A Trip to Gauguin Tahiti".

As a man and a male painter, Gauguin's life is always full of women, both in his private life and in his works. According to the data, Gauguin said excitedly after watching the Paris World Expo: "I want to set up a tropical studio and welcome everyone to visit." "Come and buy a cottage like the one we saw at the World Expo ... the women there are very gentle, and I think the local women will be very willing to be my models." Gauguin, who is about to go to Tahiti, doesn't seem to be worried that his female popularity will be affected in a foreign country. He, the best man in Montmartre, confidently went to Tahiti and began his initial pursuit.

Tahiti, a land where primitive traditions are mixed with the New World, still has its own national insistence on men and women. On the island, men and women are strengthened by the breeze from the forest and the sea, and their shoulders and hips become wider and thicker. The inconspicuous gender simplifies their relationship respectively. They are naked all year round, which frees each other from the fantasy of "mystery" and also frees each other from the color of obscurity and abuse.

The relationship between men and women is not so much a lover as a comrade or friend. When it comes to the pursuit between men and women, Tahitian women are willing to be captured by strong men. Their faces are full of pride and unique self-confidence. They remain calm and have an expression of urging men to act. There is a saying in Tahiti: "A man without a woman is not a real man."

Gauguin's first female companion was a prostitute with half gross profit and half British descent, named Linghou. The monkey is not Gauguin's dream wild bride. She is proud of her half white blood. However, for men wandering in the street, Didi is just a prostitute who can come and go at any time; The same is true for Gauguin. The monkey genus is only the object to meet his physiological needs.

Gradually, Gauguin's greedy and vain attitude towards her became more and more unbearable. It seems that it is only a matter of time before she is dumped! Finally, after Gauguin decided to move to Matthias, the monkeys began to look for new men. When Gauguin lived in Matthias, although he gradually got used to the local life and made new friends, he was afraid of women and dared not take action.

Although he was lonely at heart, his neighbors gave him support, and even the women in Tahiti gave him encouraging eyes, but he still chose to stay put.

In a short adventure, he found his Tahiti bride Tiha Armana, also known as Tihula, who was only 13 years old. Gauguin was intoxicated with the ecstasy of love and even felt a little naive, but with the young Tihula, he regained his confidence. During this period, Tihula naturally became Gauguin's first model, such as the paintings "The Wake Keeper", "The Ancestor of Tiha Amana" and some wooden heads, all of which were the embodiment of Tihula. Gauguin and Tihula are not only companions in life, but also exchange cultural differences with each other, especially Gauguin, who got precious Maori religious legends from Tihula. Using these oral materials, Gauguin also created several related paintings, such as "Her name is Vera Omati". Although Tihula sometimes appears ignorant and naive, Gauguin gets along well with her on the whole.

One night, Tihula told Gauguin that she was pregnant, and Gauguin even had the idea of staying to raise and educate the children, but at this time he did not receive the remittance from France, so he faced great difficulties. So he put forward the idea of going back to France and told Tihula to go back and deal with things and come back when it was all over. But this farewell is two years later. ...

Gauguin came to Tahiti. In fact, it was the life in Tahiti that attracted him deeply. Here, he saw the "initial glory." Besides painting, he doesn't need to engage in other annoying jobs, and he can also avoid the attention and pressure of artists and critics.

But two years later, 1895, when he returned to Tahiti again, many things could not be compared with the past. Even if he supported Gauguin, his behavior was not much nobler than that of other colonists. He has several lovers, and even after contracting syphilis, he still enjoys it. Moreover, these lovers are only thirteen or fourteen years old. This evil behavior is unacceptable not only in Europe, but also in Tahiti, which has aroused people's anxiety and criticism.

In a word, in Gauguin's life, women came and went, some were models, some left the afterglow of carnival, some gave birth to children for him, and some left good memories for him. We can be sure that women are definitely one of the important sources of Gauguin's life, art and inspiration.

I don't know much about Pablo Picasso. I found it when I went to check the information. Perhaps the artist's inspiration comes from these unlikely relationships.