ABSTRACT
Guillaume Apollinaire was as firm as Whistler on the principle that literature and painting must be kept separate. Each has its own means of expression, and its aim can only be understood within the logic of that means. In 1914 Apollinaire was well established as an art critic. His judgements on the painters of his time had already begun to seem impressively prophetic. Et moi aussi je suis peintre is not the first of Apollinaire's works to have a portrait as its frontispiece. Certainly, there are many representations of Apollinaire by Picasso which are far more 'ressemblant' in what would normally be taken as that word's immediate sense. In 1914 Apollinaire published, in Les Soirées de Paris, the tale of a third portrait of himself, by the Douanier Rousseau. 1917 Apollinaire published a calligrammatic poem with the title Pablo Picasso.
