What Is The Weeping Woman?

What is the artwork Picasso's 'Weeping Woman' about?

• I am having a bit of trouble and I need to know what is Picasso's 'Weeping Woman' about and what is the artist trying to communicate to us? Also, what does the title of this work add to out understanding of the artwork Thank you! Picture of 'Weeping Woman' here: http://www.inminds.com/picasso-weeping-woman-1937.jpg

• Answer:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weeping_Woman - "Dora Maar was Picasso's mistress from 1936 until 1944. In the course of their relationship Picasso painted her in a number of guises, some realistic, some benign, others tortured or threatening. Picasso explained: "For me she's the weeping woman. For years I've painted her in tortured forms, not through sadism, and not with pleasure, either; just obeying a vision that forced itself on me. It was the deep reality, not the superficial one." "Dora, for me, was always a weeping woman....And it's important, because women are suffering machines." These are his feelings...