I, Picasso's lover

Author: Nicole Avril
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book narrates the long history of Dora Maar and Picasso from their first meeting to their life together until Picasso's death, in the first person. Through fiction, it vividly records this "mad love." With delicate yet passionate descriptions of their love life, the author, through Maar's voice, evaluates Picasso's "see one, love one" and "always cherishing new lovers" attitude toward love with seven parts praise and three parts criticism. At the same time, set against the backdrop of World War II, the work depicts Picasso's life amidst the war, particularly describing the creation process of his tragic and moving large-scale painting "Guernica," especially his emotions as an artist with a sense of national honor and justice while creating it.