We don’t always get to hear what prompts someone’s creation. With poems, it’s special to hear the poet’s circumstances surrounding a certain poem. It’s the same thing with a painting. Paintings do speak to us without the help of anyone. The message may vary according to the viewer. When we can hear the story surrounding the production of a painting, a famous painting at that, it gives us a whole new appreciation of the art and artist. The following story about Picasso’s Guernica painting performs such a service for us.
Picasso's "Guernica" Remembered
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Posted by Gregg Chadwick
The Basque city of Guernica was firebombed by the Condor Legion of the Nazi Luftwaffe sixty-eight years ago today prompting Pablo Picasso's painting "Guernica". The fascist states of Germany and Italy had provided men and military aid to the forces under Franco who were trying to wrest control of Spain from the democratically elected government. More…
The Story of Picasso’s Guernica
4/26/2005 09:48:00 PM
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