Adrian V. Cole
Nov 1 · 4 min read

Bad Men, Great Artists: How to Reconcile one with the Other

Pablo Picasso was an awesome artist. No one really argues about that. He was the founder of Cubism, a movement which lay the foundation of much Twentieth Century art, and he is probably the best-known and most influential artist of his time.

That’s great. But what does it mean that his personal life was not so stellar? Now, we may never know the whole story, but people around him tended to commit…

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Adrian V. Cole

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Writer of fiction & non fiction. Author of “The Thinking Past: Questions and Problems in World History to 1750”…among other things. www.adrianvcole.com

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