Cathy
The introduction of Guernica Oil painting "Guernica", Picasso made in the 1930s and has a significant impact in a masterpiece of historical significance. This painting combining Cubism, Surrealism style, the performance of pain, suffering and brutal: the right of a woman painting a show of hands from the burning house fell, dragging another woman rushed into the painting center leg deformities; left of a mother and her dead child; corpse of a soldier on the ground there, he cut off the hand holding a broken sword, the sword is a flower growing beside the flowers. Early 1937, Picasso received a commission of the Republic of Spain, for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World Exposition creation of a decorative murals. During conception, April 26, 1937, the German air force bombed the northern Spanish city of Guernica Bacchus incident occurred. German three hours of the bombing, killing and wounding many civilians, so that Guernica into the ground. The crime provoked a German international condemnation. Picasso indignation, decided to order this event as a mural painting of the subject matter, in order to express their protest and mourning for the war criminals of the incident dead people. So this piece is loaded annals masterpiece painting "Guernica" was born. There is no planes, no bombs, but gathered brutality, terror, pain, despair, death and cry in picture. Being trampled flowers, broken limbs, holding the dead child's mother burst into tears, his back barking for help, physically disabled fell to the ground, still holding the broken sword arm fighters, dying Changsi horses, light icy sharp dome ...... this is a fascist atrocities silent complaint, tearing the sky. Painter symbolic and semi-abstract cubist approach to the image of a combination of Macross, breaking the boundaries of space, contains a resentful protest, the achievements of epic tragic; fragmented in black and white in the gray block, exudes endless gloom, fear , reflects the artist's strong compassion for human suffering.
Oct 21, 2014 2:08 PM