Pablo and the Chicks-from-Avignon
Why does a man need so many names? "You can call me Pablo or you can call me Diego or you can call me José or you can call me Francisco or you can call me Juan or you can call me, ah, never mind, just call me Picasso." In the case of Picasso he was given a series of names honouring various saints and relatives. Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish custom.
Why does a man need so many women? Allow me to venture a guess. Because he's afraid of them and want's to conquer his fear. It's Immersion Therapy: a psychological technique which allows a patient to overcome fears (phobias) by not only facing them, but by immersing in them . The greater the fear the more women he will need. It could take an entire lifetime, or maybe even several lifetimes, for some men. It all depends on the size of their EGO. Smaller egos entertain smaller and less threatening fears. They can mate for life with one woman. Novel idea, huh?
Immersion Therapy for Dummies:
First a fear-hierarchy is created:to determine the level of fear induced discomfort the patient can endure under various conditions. Can Pablo talk about the object of his fear? Can he tolerate a picture of it? Can he watch a movie that contains images of his fear? Can he be in the same room with the object of his fear? Can he be in physical contact with it?
Once these questions have been put into order beginning with the least horrifying to the most horrifying, Pablo is taught a relaxation exercise. He will tense up all the muscles in his body and then he will relax them, saying "relax Pablo, relax." He will then repeat this process again and again, several hundred times a day with an ever-increasing quantity of the fear inducing object, until finally, in a state of exhaustion, he embraces his fear and is calm at last. He can then go out to the terrace, have a cold beer, and blissfully smoke a cigar, cigarette, or cigarillo.
As per Wiki:
Chicks-from-Avignon
or, if you prefer, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. Each is depicted in a disorienting confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, giving them a savage aura. In this adaption of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. The work is widely considered to be seminal in the early development of both Cubism and modern art.
Demoiselles was revolutionary and controversial, and led to wide anger and disagreement, even amongst his closest associates and friends.
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