Appreciation of guernica's Works

This painting shows the disaster brought by the war in the later cubist language, whipping fascism.

Guernica is a small town in the Basque country in northern Spain. 1937 On April 26th, German warplanes bombed the Basque city of guernica at the request of the Spanish National Army government, causing serious casualties. This is the background of Picasso's painting. ?

During the period of 1936, Picasso served as honorary curator of Prado Art Museum appointed by the government and made his own contribution to the protection of art treasures. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/937, he created an etching painting "Franco's Dreams and Lies". This is a set of comic book prints, * * * 18, plus an obscure poem that vilifies Franco.

By selling copies of this group of paintings, the painter donated the proceeds to * * * and government relief. Just when this group of works was created, the "April 26th Incident" happened. Therefore, the last four paintings in this group are closely related to the guernica created in the future. In the last painting, the bulls in the group of paintings wounded the horse-shaped monster symbolizing Franco. After the paintings were copied, the French authorities used them as propaganda materials and distributed them to Franco's occupied area by plane.

Not long ago, Picasso was commissioned to create a large mural for the Prado Art Museum as a decorative painting for the Spanish-Spanish Pavilion of the World Expo held in Paris that summer. Before he could conceive, the appalling "April 26 incident" happened. This is the German fascist air force, which brazenly bombed guernica, an important town in the Basque country in northern Spain, causing casualties among peaceful residents.

When the news reached Paris, the angry Picasso, with "disgust and contempt for this militant group that immersed Spain in the ocean of pain and death", immediately took this incident as the theme, and it took only six weeks to create a huge mural "guernica" with a length of 776.6 cm and a height of 349.3 cm on June 5.

This painting shows the disaster brought by the war in the later cubist language, whipping fascism. After this painting was exhibited in Paris, it received extensive attention. 1938 was also exhibited in Norway, Britain and the United States. During the German occupation of France, Picasso did not bow to the German fascists, was unmoved by inducements, and showed noble national integrity. It means to use one's own painting as a "blow to the enemy."

This huge oil painting occupied a large wall of the Spanish Pavilion at that time. This painting does not depict the cruel scene of plane bombing, nor does it show the ferocious face of fascism. This painting consists of seven groups of symbolic images, two animals and six characters. Although there are only a few strokes, it has profound implications. On the surface, they have nothing to do with each other. In fact, they are harmonious, and they hide profound meanings. Many people have racked their brains to decipher these password-like images. This mural has become the most studied work in modern art,

Someone wanted Picasso to "explain", but he firmly refused. He thinks this is a work of art. If you want to make everything clear, you might as well give you a political declaration. Picasso seemed to have predicted that this painting would be an extremely important historical giant painting, leaving 45 decomposed sketches, and asked his then lover Doramar (an artist and photographer who just met) to take 8 photos at different stages of making this painting, which provided extremely valuable information for future generations' research. ?

Picasso didn't want to show the sad and horrible scenes in guernica at that time. The main part of this painting is a woman with outstretched arms, a cow and a badly injured horse. He also drew a few modified sketches before he began to paint on the canvas, and changed them countless times while painting. He said: "A painting is not finalized in advance, but constantly changes during the production process because of changes in personal thoughts. Even after painting, the painting changes with the viewer's thoughts. "