Picassos Guernica Notes
STYLE
Talk about minatory replacing harlequin as a common motif in his work as it was used by serealists
This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war. Asked to explain its symbolism, Picasso said, "It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them
It is interesting to note that when Guernica was first displayed in spain it had little impact , it was only on its tour of the world that it started to become a symbol rebuking war. This implies that Guernica was not necessarily significant to Picassos artistic career but ??
CHIPP Cries of coutrage and horror
In paris , the news of the atrocity , at first delayed and then censored , eventually became so contradictory that it inflamed even further the aroused emotions of the Spanish republicans and eventually outraged the world. The even became such a bitter controversy that the historian Pierre Vilar wrote that Guernica ‘ is not one of an event becoming a problem but of the problem itself taking place of the event’.
Although you can see the bombing as a small scale military episode , it corroborated for a world already terrified by nazi and fascist aggressions the fearful fact of massive foreign military interventions in the Spanish civil war,
He urges us ,( writer of the book) to consider Guernica as a history painting ,
Says that Picassos final image does not reflect the point of view of the main combatants in the civil war but instead shows the ‘brutality of the unseen buy monstrous war machine crushing bodies and spirits.
Picasso presents the even as if it were a tableau on a theatre stage with no victors only victims.
The broad historical and political implications of the tragedy in spain propelled Guernica into a world consciousness and made the painting a symbol of the plight of victims everywhere,
Its symbolic
Talk about minatory replacing harlequin as a common motif in his work as it was used by serealists
This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war. Asked to explain its symbolism, Picasso said, "It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them
It is interesting to note that when Guernica was first displayed in spain it had little impact , it was only on its tour of the world that it started to become a symbol rebuking war. This implies that Guernica was not necessarily significant to Picassos artistic career but ??
CHIPP Cries of coutrage and horror
In paris , the news of the atrocity , at first delayed and then censored , eventually became so contradictory that it inflamed even further the aroused emotions of the Spanish republicans and eventually outraged the world. The even became such a bitter controversy that the historian Pierre Vilar wrote that Guernica ‘ is not one of an event becoming a problem but of the problem itself taking place of the event’.
Although you can see the bombing as a small scale military episode , it corroborated for a world already terrified by nazi and fascist aggressions the fearful fact of massive foreign military interventions in the Spanish civil war,
He urges us ,( writer of the book) to consider Guernica as a history painting ,
Says that Picassos final image does not reflect the point of view of the main combatants in the civil war but instead shows the ‘brutality of the unseen buy monstrous war machine crushing bodies and spirits.
Picasso presents the even as if it were a tableau on a theatre stage with no victors only victims.
The broad historical and political implications of the tragedy in spain propelled Guernica into a world consciousness and made the painting a symbol of the plight of victims everywhere,
Its symbolic