Pablo PicassoThe Women Behind the Mastermind

By Erin Alemdar

“Throughout history, artists have reflexively

seen woman as the symbol for creative force,

for passion, for anguished rapture, for

beauty, and a short insight and sensitivity

that is both a blessing and a curse” (The

Christian Science Monitor).

Table of Contents

Background

Fernande Olivier

Olga Koklova

New Mistresses

Francoise Gilot

Jacqueline Roque

Background

Picasso’s mother’s encouragement

Death of younger sister

Leads to over confidence

Separation-anxiety in later years

Fernande Olivier

• Picasso’s first significant love affair

• Fernande’s influence in Rose Period paintings

• Personality influenced the mood and themes of Rose Period.

Rose Period

• Harlequin as a comic symbol

• Pink, red, and orange paints

• Influenced by opium

• Self-centered painting and violence toward Fernande

Olga Koklova

• Push towards sophistication

• More demanding relationship

• Emergence of Picasso’s dark side

More than two-thirds of his paintings from

1930-40 consisted of deformed women,

their faces and bodies flayed. Behind

captivating female beauty, he saw

disintegration, decomposition, and death.

-- Dr. Kate Kavanagh

Marie-Therese Walter

• Meets Picasso at the impressionable age of 17

• Submissive and tolerant of abuse

• Mother of Maia, Picasso’s first daughter

Dora Maar

• Career-minded and independent photographer

• Picasso’s intellectual equal

• Physically and verbally abused by Picasso

The Bullfight Series

• Wounded matadors and victorious bull

• Representations of Picasso’s relationships

The Minotaur

Weeping Women

The portrayal of suffering women integrates Picasso’s personal life with his artwork.

Francoise Gilot• Well-educated intellectual who possessed unusual beauty

• Mother of Claude and Paloma

• Abused by Picasso despite her illness

• Only woman to leave Picasso

Jacqueline Roque

• Picasso’s second wife

• Only woman left for Picasso to abuse

• Picasso’s extreme separation-anxiety keeps them together until his death in 1973

Picasso’s Death

• Fernande published memoir

•Marie-Therese hanged herself

• Dora moved to a mental institution

• Paulo dies of alcoholism

• Pablito killed himself after funeral

• Jacqueline shot herself in 1976

My Mentor

• Christy Sullivan

• Graduated from Mount Olive College with a BAS in Fine Art

• Teaches art at Hobbton High School in Newton Grove, NC

My Product

Cubist-style oil painting of the WEMCHS school mascot

What I Learned

• Oil painting techniques

• Cubism techniques

• Research and application skills

• Time-management skills

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Pablo PicassoThe Women Behind the Mastermind

By Erin Alemdar