Warning ahead of time, no cheating is allowed in this guessing game and challenge of your cultural level of artistic knowledge.
I have to say that although this may look rather simplistic it is perhaps one of the most dramatic pieces of art you will ever see. Once you learn the why of this particular masterpiece of emotion you’ll be able to understand each detail, well maybe not, but clarity will come.
Comment your opinions about the piece and if you know what, when and who about it then all the better to let everyone know. Look at the details. (Click on the image to see a larger version.
Write a piece of poetry or even a post. If you create a post, link back to here or even put your link in the comments, just like with the Haiku Challenge. Or you can simply share your poetry in the comments. Good luck ,good viewing, good inspiration, and finally, good creating. Also, if you are artistic and create something inspired by this, share it with us.
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Gah. I remember learning about this one in my Art Appreciation class a few years ago. I can’t remember the artist or the history of the painting, but I think it’s called “Guernica”. Am I close?
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You got it in one. 🙂 Now if you just look at how the bodies and faces are so oddly done, I bet you could guess the artist.
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A lot of suffering and crying out for help is portrayed in this art work.
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Yes. That’s what moved this artist to make this work. When I ran across it I had no idea of the event that inspired it. I still find it hard to believe what happened.
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Is this Picasso’s Guernica?
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You got it!
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That’s what the inside of an aiport looks like to me every time I have to endure traveling through one. It’s like a bull fight where the sounds are swords and the swirl of motion can’t be tracked. Too much chaos,
Never was a fan of Picasso, the surreal in.his paintings are anxiety.
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For once that anxiety has a purpose. Very appropriate for the reason.
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Everyone should know Guernica. It tells us all about war we should need to know.
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I think this part of history is left out due to the timing and location. I studied Nazi and Facism in University for my history education degree and never heard of this. So this is right up my alley to share with it being so closely attached to history of WWII.
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Most European school children would recognise this painting. The war, Fascism and Germany is still very present. I say Germany because the country still has a big ‘image’ problem in Europe. The Spanish Civil War is taught here because it was an important prelude to WWII and we have a large Spanish population who fled Franco.
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