Imperialism

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being "goddesses or
doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both
roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was legendary.

He was also politically lucky. Though to Nazis his work was the epitome of "degenerate
art," his fame protected him during the German occupation of Paris, where he lived; and
after the war, when artists and writers were thought disgraced by the slightest affiliation
with Nazism or fascism, Picasso gave enthusiastic endorsement to Joseph Stalin, a mass
murderer on a scale far beyond Hitler's, and scarcely received a word of criticism for it,
even in cold war America.

No painter, not even Michelangelo, had been as famous as this in his own lifetime. And it
is quite possible that none ever will be again, now that the mandate to set forth social
meaning. Picasso was the last great beneficiary of the belief that the language of painting
and sculpture really mattered to people other than their devotees. And he was the ...

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