Women Artists

Sickert's genetic aberrations and childhood traumas had found his fissures and chiseled him to pieces. One piece of him would give painting lessons to Winston Churchill, while another piece wrote a letter to the press in 1937 praising Adolf Hitler's art. One piece of Sickert was kind to his drug-addicted, weak brother Bernhard, while another piece thought nothing of appearing at the Red Cross hospital to sketch soldiers suffering and dying, and then ask for their uniforms since they wouldn't be needing them anymore. One piece of Sickert could praise a fledgling artist and be very generous with his time and instruction, while another piece trashed Masters such as Cezanne and Van Gogh and wrote a lie in the Saturday Review with the intention of defaming the careers of Joseph Pennell and Whistler. One piece of Sickert fooled friends into thinking he was a lady's man, while another piece of him called women "bitches" - or in Ripper letters, "cunts" - and wrote them off as a lower order of life, and murdered and mutilated them and further degraded and violated them in his art ...»