Rosalía apologizes after her comments about Picasso: “I didn't know about the abuse”

Rosalía has revisited comments she made on the "Spotify Presenta" format alongside Mariana Enriquez, which had reignited the debate over Pablo Picasso and the relationship between an artist's work and their behavior. In that interview, the singer behind "Lux" had said she loved the painter and was able to separate the man from his artistic output: "Maybe I wouldn't have liked him so much because of the things I've been told, but who knows. I'm not interested, I just enjoy his work."

After facing criticism, Rosalía clarified her stance and issued a public apology, explaining that she didn't feel at peace with those words. She admitted to having spoken without fully knowing the accusations and testimonies regarding the abuse, misogyny and violent behavior attributed to the Spanish artist, and apologized to the women involved for the lack of sensitivity she had shown.

ROSALÍA apologises for saying she ‘separates the art from the artist’ in relation to Pablo Picasso.

She explains that she was not aware he had abused women and that her knowledge of him being great was based on what she heard from others. She also clarifies she is a feminist as… pic.twitter.com/CdQU5rtY7e

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The singer clarified that her admiration was strictly for Picasso's artistic talent. Another topic the singer chose to address in her clip was feminism, for which she swears she feels "only love, respect and gratitude. I think it's clear that the way I live, the way I write, the way I perform, the way I sing, the way I make music, the way I love, is very feminist," the singer reiterated. "I think my feminist stance is obvious, but maybe it hasn't been so obvious to others. Honestly, nowadays it seems like if you're not clearly on one side, then you must be on the other. And the truth is I felt very uncomfortable with everything that was said about that conversation."

In a lighter moment of the interview, when asked what quality she valued most in a man, the singer answered with a smile: "That he's gay."

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