Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Pablo Picasso: The Public Art and Private Life of the Maestro" video.

Picasso was definitely complex, like most of us, but seemed more dedicated than anyone else to following his own path no matter what. I used to wonder endlessly how such beautiful and popular women could fall for him, but several of them said that when he decided to focus his attention, he was intensely giving and living and interested in everything about them. It fits a theory I've had for a long time, that the most sexy, alluring thing anyone can do to attract someone is to be completely fascinated by them, not be fascinating, but be fascinated! Nothing is more attractive than to anyone. When is the last time anyone you knew was completely enthralled by you? For most people, it never happens. Especially today, when our attentions are constantly interrupted and divided. It's something that cannot be faked well, either. What do you think? Of course, I'm not talking about crazy obsessed people, like stalkers, etc., but regular folks...
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A Picasso was just found, in a riverbed outside the city of Athens (Greece), wrapped in plastic, after being stolen by a builder from a museum in the city 9 years ago! The museum had zero security, except for guards who took their many cigarette breaks together so a builder working repairs there had no trouble stuffing the small painting into a bag, along with a couple of dutch masterpieces, and walk out. He never tried to sell them, and apparently, eventually tired of them and threw one away, and wrapped up the Picasso and tossed into a dry riverbed outside of town. How do you get tired of a PICASSO???
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@allencummings7564 I think your right! I'm really referring to people who don't have really disturbing personality traits! I just think there is nothing so great as to be with anyone, friend, family member, spouse, etc., whom you are totally at ease with, because you KNOW, without a doubt, that they think you're great, just as you are. You don't have try hard, put on an act, be "your best self". You can just enjoy each others company in total peace. I picked my husband based on that, and it turned out great for us so far (35 years), and my best friends have been the same for decades, we don't see each other all the time, but when we do, we're totally happy and comfortable. I definitely didn't want a boyfriend or spouse that had some agenda or was trying to be successful. I didn't care about money or owning things, I just wanted someone I really never got bored with. The crazy thing is that in spite of not looking for success, my life turned out better than I could ever have imagined! I still can't believe it...
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@hetalianotaku7103 I am so happy to hear you say that! I'm very against any abuse, and I couldn't excuse it, but in Picasso's case, I've always been very interested in his history, especially right after WWI and have read almost every biography I can find of people in that time and place, Paris after the war, with all the hundreds of Americans and artists and Russian aristocrats who fled the revolution, etc. They all overlap, because all the artists and dressmakers and models and writers all knew, or knew of, each other, and wrote about each other constantly! There was a lot of jealousy and back stabbing and drunken binges, it was crazy, and exciting, because EVERYTHING was new, new morals, new cultures, new art, and since Picasso had painted since he was a toddler, everyone knew him, and every time he picked up a new girlfriend or wife, EVERYONE warned her about him, even the ex wives and ex girlfriends would tell the new one, " This is what he does, he will force you to be his slave, he will make you take care of his children and cook and clean up after him, and while you're doing that, he will be having sex with the model and take HER out to dinner and leave you home..". Seriously, these women were constantly trying to keep others from being so hurt, but he had so much charisma, was so famous, was so great, that each new person thought they would be different. So, honestly, they all knew exactly what they were taking on...it doesn't excuse his behavior in any way, but it was no secret! He was the Mick Jagger of the 1920s! Still making babies in his 70s and 80s...we all know how unfaithful and horrible Mick is to every girlfriend and wife he ever had. When Jagger had been married to Jerry Hall for 14 years, and had 4 kids with her, she finally left and filed for divorce because he had a baby with a 22 year old model, and he had his lawyer tell her they never really got married in Bali, because they weren't citizens there, so the marriage (and the kids) were not valid and didn't really share his name, not only screwing Jerry over, but publicly disowning his own teenage kids without warning. Talk about abuse!! He had already done the same kind of thing to Bianca Jagger, shutting down all the bank accounts they had so she had to leave her house and was stuck with the bills... I love the Rolling Stones, but geez, these guys can be real jerks! And that's if they "love" you!! Sorry about the crazy long post, I just don't want anyone to think I'm condoning any man (or woman) hurting someone. It's hard to look at that era sometimes. You might be interested in looking up Natalie Barney, she was a very rich American who loved Paris, moved there in the late 1890s, and was a very open lesbian. She slept with half of France, from the stories, and was completely, serially, unfaithful! She had one partner for 30 years, the artist Romaine Brooks, who was forever leaving her and coming back. She also had affairs with Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde's niece, and the famous courtesan, Lilian de Pougy..among every other woman in Paris. She was WAY ahead of her time!! She led the gay pride movement before anyone even thought of it, but she was a terrible girlfriend! Check her out on Google, unbelievable photos!
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Have you seen the bars he designed? They are in Iceland (I think), and look like the interior of an alien ship...
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I'm so ancient that I originally listened to his comedy records as a kid in the 60s! He made me laugh so hard, even though I didn't understand every bit of the humor. He always did a spoof on his early career as a DJ on the radio, calling the station WHINO ("wonderful whino!!!"). He was so quick and funny, later, he performed all over the Bay Area and my dad got to meet him, loved his act! So many new talents came thru back then!
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Eidelmania Did what?
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Wow!! I don't remember that, I think I need to tattoo that somewhere near Edgar Allen Poe's qoute, "all we see and seem, is but a dream within a dream"...
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Diana Vreeland, who was the editor of Vogue Magazine during it's most exciting and experimental years (the 1970s), was a great traveler, and often said that she thought Russia would be the hardest country to leave or be exiled from. Her many friends, often Russian expatriates, would moan (in French), of their old lives and how nothing could ever be home for them. These friends of course were usually titled aristocrats who escaped during the revolution and ended up in China and Europe in various stages of poverty. Harbin, China supposedly has the largest Russian population outside of Russia. Do you know if that is true?
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@sicsempertyrannisvi4107 People often overreact when they get worked up, but it's still insulting to everyone, white or whatever else, because labels are for cans, NOT PEOPLE. I happen to be a mixed stew, genealogy speaking, but am very, very pale looking, while my mom had darker skin like her Native American Indian ancestors, with black hair and eyes. My sister was blonde and green eyed. There have been times when people have tried to use me to amplify their racism, and it's always a cringe moment. It's too hard to untangle my family tree at a moments notice, but I want them to be aware that I am not on the same page they are...it's always awful when ANYONE puts everyone in a box based on something so weird as skin tone...if someone doesn't like me, I want it to be for an actual reason, not assumption.
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@campbellpaul You win the awesome smart ass award today!😂😂😂 I love it!🤩
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@CrossoverGameReviews Art is to the beholder what they feel when they see it. Insisting that everyone like only the pieces YOU deem acceptable is extremely narrow minded and ridiculous. Your attitude is exactly why reactionary movements like dada and surrealism were born, to wake up the dull minded and bourgeois people who could only appreciate what they have been trained to like, like circus animals. Since I have no need for someone to tell me what's good, I can make up my own mind, and those who squeal in indignation with insults are merely insecure. Enjoy what you like, and let's others have their own opinions, the world is bigger than you know...
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@sicsempertyrannisvi4107 Racism is a disease of ignorant people, and no color has a monopoly on it...
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