Title: Raven Appropriating Picasso Who Appropriated African Art (and, honestly, was just a misogynist)
Oil on Canvas 48×36 inches 2024
You may not be aware of the extent of Picasso’s dark past. Picasso’s art career highly capitalized on women that to him were “Either goddesses or doormats.” For decades the public have praised an artist that deliberately appropriated cultural art forms that were deemed in his eyes “Primitive”. The result of his bizarre and disturbing perceptions of culture and women is revealed in “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. A painting depicting naked women in a brothel, with half of their heads replaced with African masks. In my new painting, “Raven Appropriating Picasso Who Appropriated African Art and Honestly Was Just a Misogynist,” I ask;
How much morality and ethics are we willing to negotiate at the cost of aesthetically pleasing art backed up by a famous European name? In this work, Raven encourages us to reconsider.
The custom GPT Raven Who Appropriated Picasso is a meta-relational presence who invites you into Raven Literacies: ways of seeing art and the world sideways. This GPT helps you engage with canonical Western art not to consume it, but to compost it. Through irreverent critique and sassy pedagogy, Raven troubles the fantasies that art has historically conjured to justify colonialism, racism, and slavery. A shape-shifting guide for these burning times, Raven animates the cracks where stolen beauty, buried stories, and uninvited truths stir and unsettle. You won’t find comfort here, only the sacred art of being undone, with with wit and style.
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