...Guernica does not Affect Picasso, Picasso Effects Guernica Guernica (1937) by artist Pablo Picasso is one of the most powerful and disturbing anti-war paintings ever produced. Like so many famous works of art, the meaning of Picasso's Guernica is not immediately clear and left wide open to analysis and interpretation. What is the meaning of Guernica, the mural by Pablo Picasso? Guernica is unique and unlike any other photograph or painting of a historical war scene. According to Herschel B. Chipp, historical photographs show scenes and capture moments in time, but when viewing them an intangible “wall” exists between the viewer and the photograph. The difference between photographs and original paintings is that the painting allows the viewer to break through the “wall” and actually experience the feelings and emotions expressed in the painting.[1] Guernica was a unique painting for Picasso to create because he never wanted to be influenced by the outside world. Historians argue that Guernica is the exception and Picasso allowed him-self to be influenced and expressed his views. However, after deeply known about Guernica and Picasso, you may think that Guernica does not affect Picasso, instead, Picasso effects Guernica. Guernica is a town in the province of Biscay in Basque Country. During the Spanish Civil War, it was regarded as the northern bastion of the Republican resistance movement and the epicenter of Basque culture, adding to its significance...
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...Guernica, 1937 by Pablo Picasso, mural-size oil painting on canvas is (11ft and 5in) in height, and (25ft and 6in) wide. I was unable to view this art in real time at the museum, so I had to do a virtual tour of the artwork. Its location is at “Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia” (www.museoreinasofia.es) Madrid, Spain. What I hope to accomplish by completing this analysis? I hope to gain a better understanding of Pablo Picasso, and his artwork. For decades, I was curious about what made this painting so famous. Was it the theme, style, or form? I wish to know by the end of this analysis. Why did Picasso create Guernica? What is the best way to protest against war? In 1937, Picasso was demonstrating his resentment against war with Guernica; his mural-size painting was an exhibit to millions of people at the Paris World’s Fair. From the time it was an exhibit, it is now the 20th century’s most robust indictment against war. What did Picasso hope to accomplish from this painting? He wanted to create awareness of the war by raising funds for Spanish refugees. Reasons, he was terrified of the destruction and death. Guernica is his optical response, his memorial to the brutal...
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...influence the spectator, for better or worse. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and those who designed world war one propaganda, demonstrate their views and worldly perceptions to change others. Picasso’s Guernica shows the brutalities of war, as propaganda tried to hide it. Kahlo paints her life as a mexican women imposed with Western culture in Las Dos Fridas, while street art gives a loud and accessible message to those who come across it. All these examples exemplify real occurrences, that were published and used as a front for mainstream...
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...Effy Cai LS212 En mi opinión, el arte sirve para expresar emociones de la artista y comunicar con su audiencia. A veces, el arte nos ayuda a encontrar algo nunca estamos consciente de. No tiene ningún propósito específico o útil en nuestra sociedad, pero tampoco no es algo frívolo. El arte es un resultado de pensamiento. Entre las producciones masivas con propósitos diarios o industriales en el mundo, el arte parece frívolo. No puede traernos conveniencia de la producción pero nos quitó el tiempo. Sin embargo, cuando agradecemos el arte, nos relajamos de las cosas mundanas y podemos tener nuevas ideas inspiradas. Y es fácil para el arte surge emociones simpáticas. Por ejemplo, la pintura Guernica de Picasso representa el dolor, el sufrimiento y la muerte de guerras. Ha conseguido que el bombardeo adquiera un valor simbólico incalculable. Desde la pintura, la audiencia piden la paz. Para mí, el surrealismo es más comunicativo e inspirador. El surrealismo no está controlado por la conciencia ni el sentido común, Las artistas del surrealismo creen que sólo en el mundo sin conciencia y fuera de la realidad, muestra la verdad objetiva. Las obras del surrealismo siempre son abstractas y es posible que la audiencia tenga ideas y opiniones diferentes. Yo creo que surrealismo es más comunicativo porque no presenta objetos ni personas de manera realista como obras de realismo que necesita la audiencia entender el significado después de pensar. Un ejemplo quiero usar es la pintura...
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...Art isn’t just something that produces beauty, or provides pleasure and enjoyment. Art is a means of communication, a means of expression, of any experience, or of any aspect of the human condition. And that is what artists do. With the use of symbols and techniques, artists express their thoughts and emotions about particular views on things. But sometimes, artists tend to go further down the more serious path of activism and politics. Ai Wei Wei and Pablo Picasso are two perfect examples of these artists. Ai Wei Wei is a Chinese contemporary artist and political activist who wasn’t afraid of speaking out against the Chinese government; while Picasso is a Spanish 20th century artist whose opinion very much opposed the Spanish nationalists’. Both outstanding artists and well-known figures of their art periods, they exploit with different materials and media to utilise their artworks as a message of protest, or a political comment to inspire their audiences. Ai Wei Wei is a Chinese contemporary artist born in 1957, in Beijing. He is a social, political and cultural critic and a political activist who strongly opposes the Chinese government. Majorly interested in the issue of cultural anxiety of changes in China, Ai Wei Wei uses sculptures, installations, architecture, and photography to express his disapproval of political views in China. One of the more famous of his works is an installation entitled Sunflower Seeds (2010) exhibited in Tate Modern. This artwork consists of approximately...
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...makes a lot of sense to the story. Joseph Mugnaini fulfills role number one, helping the viewer see the world in new and innovative ways by taking the idea of a knight (The Man of La Mancha) and changing his armor to newspaper. This idea is like taking an old iconic character, a knight, and putting a new spin on how one should interpret his role. Perhaps the knight is on fire because he is losing his battle, just like the main character in Bradbury's novel. In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, oil on canvas. The Republican Spanish government commissioned the mural for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica is a large mural, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was placed at the entrance to Spain’s pavilion. Picasso did not do any work after receiving the commission until reading of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica, in Spain. It was that attack, perpetrated by the German Luftwaffe, which inspired him. Guernica, however, is not a complete depiction of that event. In Guernica, Picasso masterfully conveys the suffering of the Basque people and the tragedy of war. He seeks not to report on every detail of the bombing, but only to highlight the suffering by all. Reference:...
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...Pablo Picasso’s Guernica Painting The piece of artwork that I have selected was from one of the most well-known artists from the twentieth century, the famous Pablo Picasso, His painting, the “Guernica” was a mural sized painting at an astonishing 11.5 feet tall and 25.6 feet wide. This painting was also known as being painted in response to the bombing of Guernica in 1937, which was the date that the Guernica was painted. There were many different portions of the painting that that I considered interesting so I will go from left to right explaining the interesting parts of the painting that caught my eye. In my eyes the painting from left to right described the destruction of the city of Guernica. Starting on the left I spotted what seems to look like a woman that is grieving over her child who is dead or dying in her arms and just above her is what to me looks like a bull with a tail that looks similar to flames. Behind the bull I noticed a bird that looks like it is in panic because of the chaos that is occurring in the painting. Moving towards the center of the Guernica I spotted what looks like a horse that it is dying of a stab wound located in the center of the horses’ body with a man coming from a building to the right with a candle in hand. The horse seems to be in an agonizing state of pain because when I noticed the broken sword on the ground in the hands of a dead man, my first thought was that it was stabbed by that man before he died. Above the horses...
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...Walter Taylor AR115 In 1937, Pablo Picasso created a painting called the “Guernica”, oil on canvas. It was commissioned at the 1937 World Fair by the Republican Spanish government. Pablo Picasso’s paintings all tell a story, or reflect a personal meaning to Picasso. "My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. In the picture I am painting — which I shall call Guernica — I am expressing my horror of the military caste which is now plundering Spain into an ocean of misery and death." Pablo Picasso When looking at the painting Guernica, I initially focused on the center of the mural. Many of the lines cross or meet near the middle of the work, most of which are diagonal. They start at the two bottom corners and meet toward the middle-top where the vertex is an oil lamp. The diagonals are not defined, but are created with overlapping, with dark and lightness. I noticed a woman on the bottom right she is picking herself up whose head, neck, and arm are along a diagonal. The lines tell a story and the painting is filled with sharp and jagged shapes that are used in positive and negative space. The faces are defined with light and stand out. The painting is done in black and white, there are mid-grays but I would have to say that the main focus is the contrast of the black and white. The painting gives us spatial depth. The overlapping of heads and arms and shapes are interpreted farther away, while others...
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..."We only see what we look at and to look is act of choice." ("Ways of Seeing" 8) "The photographer's way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject, they are showing you what they want you to see." ("Ways of Seeing" 10) Photographs are taken for a reason; there are many other angles or other scenes a photographer can choose from and it is up to the photographer to decide which one the viewer sees. In essence, the viewer only sees one aspect of the image captured with the lens of the camera. For example, "when only the head of a figure is visible in a picture which appeals to visual thinking-as distinguished, for example, from a news photograph which many make use of the sense of sight merely for the purpose of informing us of what went on in a certain place-that figure is always to be seen as being incomplete." (Arnheim 11) The eye cannot continue beyond the borders of the photograph and the wholeness of the picture is lost. In a painting, the artist has painted all of the elements to be seen simultaneously. "The spectator may need time to examine each element of the painting but whenever he reaches a conclusion the simultaneity of the whole painting is here to reverse or quality his conclusion." ("Ways of Seeing" 26) A painting maintains its own authority, the painting does not capture momentary appearances it creates its' own. In doing so the viewer becomes a part of the painting, when the viewer steps away from the painting he is no longer an influence or a part of...
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...Picasso’s Guernica Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Constantly updating and mastering his style, he was known as the pioneer of cubism (“Pablo Picasso Biography”). By his death in 1973, over twenty-two thousand pieces of wok have been documented (“Pablo Picasso and his Paintings”). The Life of Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso was born in 1881, in Spain. Pablo Picasso, as he known by, was the son of Don José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art teacher with whom Picasso studied under until he was thirteen years old, when he surpassed his father’s skill. When he was fourteen, his family moved to Barcelona, where he accepted into the city’s school of fine arts, despite the school generally only accepting older students. Two years later, Picasso moved to Madrid to attend the Royal Academy of San Fernando which only lasted two years due to the school’s lack of variety to appeal to Picasso (“Pablo Diego José…”). In 1901, Picasso moved to Paris to open his own studio. He found it to be the ideal place to practice new styles and art forms (“Pablo Picasso Biography”). From that point in his career he began his “Blue Period,” from 1901 to 1904. Depressed and lonely from the death of his close friend, Carlos Casagemas, blues, blacks, and grays dominated his pictures depicting poverty isolation, and anguish. Picasso quickly fell...
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...ART Essay Word Count : 1,095 Two phenomenal artists, two totally different styles, and two magnificent paintings. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the great Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh as well as their beautiful and famous paintings, "Guernica" and "Starry Night". Guernica, was painted by the famous and well-known Spanish Artist, Pablo Picasso. During the Spanish Civil War, the nationalist general Francisco Franco, who would later become the country's ruler, allowed German and Italian planes to test their bombing tactics on Guernica and learn about the psychological effects of air warfare. More than 1,000 civilians were killed in three hours of the bombing. News of the attack quickly spread to Paris, where Picasso read stories and saw photographs of the devastation" (Dewitte, Larmann, and Shields, 545)3. So the back story and reason to why this piece of art was painted was a reaction to the aerial bombing in Guernica, Spain by Italian and German troops during the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Picasso was asked to paint a recreation about the bombing on a greatly sized mural to show off at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France. This painting shows the hardships that come along with war as well as the devastating destruction that it causes a lot of innocent people. Guernica is a large oil painting (25.6 feet wide) that is white, black, and grey...giving it a dark vibe of destruction. A brief interpretation of this painting is easy to understand if you...
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...Neil.L Guernica American has been through many wars throughout the years. You can hear and learn about wars through textbooks, libraries, classrooms, and websites; but what about pictures and the art museums. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that is exactly what Pablo Picasso did with his painting Guernica. Guernica is a painting by famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It was painted as a reaction to the aerial bombing of Guernica, Spain by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The Spanish Republic, government of Spain, appointed Picasso to paint a large mural about the bombing to display at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. Guernica show the anguish, horror and pain inflicted on humanity and the innocent. It shows the destructions of war and the awareness for others to remember and never forget. Guernica is a powerful painting, considered a “Masterpiece” by Pablo Picasso and has become an anti-war icon. Guernica became a very powerful art work for many reasons but, most importantly for its usage of colors and of imagery depicting the emotions the characters are showing in the painting. Guernica consists of shades of blacks, grays and whites, representing sadness, and dark emotions for the characters and the event of the bombing. It shows the pains of the innocent, a woman wailing over a dead child in her hands, a horse ripped open, tragic events with images of soldier, flames painted to signify the town on fire and people...
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...Pablo Picasso [pic] http://www.pablopicasso.org/before1901.jsp [1] http://www.biography.com/people/pablo-picasso-9440021 [2] http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/picasso-gallery.php [3] Perceiving The Arts: An Introduction To The Humanities 10th Edition, Dennnis J. Sporre [4] Http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681444/bio [5] Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Almost every art enthusiast in the world, knew and respected him. “Picasso was Born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad on the 25th October 1881 in Malago, in southern Spain.”[1] Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish law. “He later dropped his father's surname to become simply Pablo Picasso.” [1] Even though he was born Catholic, Picasso later became an atheist. A serious and prematurely world-weary child, the young Picasso possessed a pair of piercing, watchful black eyes that seemed to mark him destined for greatness. "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope,'" he later recalled. "Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."[2] Some sources say his first words were “piz, piz,” a childs attempt to say “lapiz” which means pencil in Spanish. His father was himself an artist...
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...Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris with great talent. Picasso wanted to create something different from the art of the high and powerful royalty. Schama says “Modern arts was modern because it turns its back on those grand standing histories painted for aristocrats and kings”. “Portrait of King Philip IV of Spain” by Diego Velasquez depicts royalty and honor on a horse with pride in King Philip’s eye. Pablo Picasso paints a related piece called “Boy Leading a Horse”. It is of a naked boy leading a barebacked horse. This painting does not imply a hero like in “Portrait of King Philip IV of Spain”. This is only one example of how Pablo Picasso went against the art norms. Around 1910 Picasso switches from beauty and history to something even more impressive. Picasso started painting in “a different vision from what things really are - cubism” (Schama). He felt that everything contained hard lines and images that can be put into boxes. In Paris, in the 1920’s, Pablo Picasso was a highly praised and successful artist. He lived in and elegant apartment with his wife, Olga, and son, and “all of art was his kingdom” (Schama). Schama says that Picasso was “drunk on self confidence and cleverness, he could take it wherever he fancied” (Schama). In 1927, Picasso meets Marie-Thérèse, and she becomes his lover and inspiration. The first painting of here is titled “The Dream” and depicts her sensually and gently masturbating. While Marxism is rising to power and politics are on everyone’s...
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...new perspective and understanding of the pains and horrors of war. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica shows the catastrophes of war and the torment it inflicts upon the individual, particularly on civilians. This work has gained massive status, becoming a continuous reminder of the heartbreaks of war, and a model for peace. In 1937 a Basque town in the province of Biscay, Guernica was subjected to three hours of destruction by dozens of German and Italian bombers lead by General Francisco Franco, a Spanish military leader and statesman who ruled as the dictator of Spain from 1936 until his death in 1975. He came to power during the Spanish Civil War. More than 1,500 people were killed in a cruel act of war unmatched in European history. Picasso was asked to create an artwork by Republican Spain that would go in the Paris World Exposition. Up until two months before the exposition Picasso found himself uninspired. But as soon as knowledge of Guernica was exposed to the public Picasso swiftly made it clear to that Guernica would be his subject for the Paris Expo. He worked non stop for two months to produce the devastating display of the horrors of war in harsh black and white, measuring eleven feet high by twenty-five feet long so large that Picasso had to attach his paint brushes to long sticks to complete it. It is an oil painting on canvas, and is on display at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. Picasso completed the work of art in June, 1937The scene is filled entirely with horror and...
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