![]() ![]() ![]() After he had spent many nights extracting their essence, once they were bled dry, he would dispose of them.” His own granddaughter wrote of him “He submitted them to his animal sexuality, tamed them, bewitched them, ingested them, and crushed them onto his canvas. To think of Picasso inflicting trauma on the women in his life (two died by suicide) is another heartbreak in a lifetime of idols letting you down. In the painting, I recognise the reckoning with trauma that defines both the person and the nation. I see his Cubist world stripped of colour, and overrun with beasts. On the other hand, I will always look at Picasso’s Guernica as a child of a civil war. My introduction to Harvey Weinstein was through his countless allegations of harassment and abuse, and I am unable to see beyond that. This isn’t just because of a holier-than-thou attitude. Three times I have gone to watch Lion (2016), but have not been able to make it beyond the “The Weinstein Company” title card. So it is easy for me to disregard their art in my personal life, along with the barrage of other abusers brought to the forefront during the #MeToo movement. But the difference there is that I don’t have any connection to these artists, unlike Picasso or Ye whose works have affected me deeply. The problem is too large to ignore and seems to stretch across the history of art and society – from Paul Gaugin to Woody Allen. And of course there are people who haven’t given it a second thought. In the other camp, there are those who are all for cancelling artists completely. There are those who want to separate the art from the heinous things the artist has done, thereby saving the art and with it the artist’s legacy. In the artworld, as in the public sphere, there are two camps when it comes to the idea of separating the art from the artist. But it is that first Pablo whose trajectory Ye seems to follow closest: the troubled genius, the problematic fave, Pablo Picasso. It seems that Ye is embracing his internal contradictions by modelling himself on both an apostle and a cartel boss. Pablo Escobar was the biggest mover of product, and Pablo Picasso was the biggest mover of art.” inspired and was the strongest influencer of Christianity. “Which Pablo? Pablo Picasso, Pablo Escobar of course, Apostle Paul. Ye addressed the question on Kocktails with Khloe, his then sister-in-law’s interview show: But I think I’m always going to love his music and The Life of Pablo in particular.īut what does Ye mean when he repeats “I feel like Pablo”, amidst the impassioned plea for “no more parties in LA”? Who is this elusive Pablo that the album is named after? That same Ye has aligned himself with the vilest white supremacy and anti-semitism. That same Kayne sent models down a runway wearing “white lives matter” t-shirts for Yeezy. Ye was praised for his defence of Black communities in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Like many disappointed Ye fans, I struggle to separate the art that I love from the hate the artist has come to represent. And now this video, titled “LAST WEEK,” in which Ye appears to show pornography to Adidas executives, goes to his Donda Academy to discuss removing the AC, and raps “You don’t really love Ye/Go Listen to Drake, bitch.” Well it’s certainly an option.This is not a defence of Ye fka Kanye West. That prompted Ye to go on Twitter and make antisemitic statements about Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, as well as claiming he was “ going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” once he wasn’t feeling sleepy. Ye captioned the Instagram post with a comment implying Diddy was being controlled by Jewish people, which caused Meta to remove the post. It started with blowback from West’s decision to wear a “White Lives Matter” shirt at Paris Fashion Week, a move he later told Tucker Carlson he thought would be “funny.” Then he posted screenshots of texts allegedly with Sean “Diddy” Combs in which Combs seemed to be trying to get Ye to see reason. Ye’s last week has been as news-filled as the one he had last month. ![]() Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has taken his feelings about his controversial week and turned them into a 30-minute vlog. ![]()
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