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into the Apollo collection is Guernica. It was painted by Pablo Picasso between May 1st and June 4th, 1937 in Paris. An oil painting on canvas standing 349.3 cm tall and 776.6 cm wide. It is currently on display in room 206 of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte – Reina Sofia. Subject Matter and Interpretation Looking at the work for the first time, there is an intensity and excitement that overwhelms the viewer coming from the subject matter of lines and shapes that form a narrative for the piece.

Julius Byla Hake English 101 10/22/17 Picasso’s Guernica Throughout time paintings have been used to record events, communicate ideas or evoke an emotional response. Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica does just this. Guernica was created to bring attention to the Nazi bombing of the town of Guernica, Spain during the Spanish civil war in the second half of the 1930s. Its exhibition was used to provide relief and a call against the horrors of war. Through its visual elements and symbolic concepts

Identification and Evaluation of Sources: The aim of this investigation is to explore, to what extent was art an expression of society after the bombing in Guernica? These sources explain the causation of the bombing and how art expressed society after the bombing. How the bombing influenced artists such as Picasso to paint one of his most famous paintings and his emotions towards the bombing and how it made art his only weapon to fight against the war. Pablo Picasso’s painting was painted in 1937

and color fulfill the Surrealist idea of creating work that liberates the creative potential of one’s unconscious mind. The forthcoming analysis will examine a painting by Miró completed in 1924 titled Pastorale, now located in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain. This paper will provide biographical information on the artist followed by a formal and contextual analysis of the painting Pastorale. This analysis will draw links between Miró’s development as an artist prior to

Loretta Lux grew up in Soviet occupied East Germany. She was raised inside the Berlin Wall that came down when she was 20 years old. A year after the wall came down in 1990 Loretta stared studying paintings and art which she perused until 1996. Three years on and she had started studying photography. In 2004 she had her first solo show in America at the Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. In 2005, Loretta received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work has since

Guernica. Cubist Spanish Artist Pablo Picasso, illustrated the artwork Guernica in 1937 while the time he was in Paris. It is an oil painting on canvas which main utilising the palates grey, black and white. It is currently at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Spain’s national museum), Madrid in Spain. Upright, the mural’s dimensions are standing at 349cm high and the extension of 777cm wide. The tone of the mural revealed an absence of colour to help highlight the silence of the composition

Kalyn Harley Dr. Touya HIST 4710 18 June 2015 French Art: a Testimony of the Fight for Freedom Throughout the course of the past four centuries in France, the value of liberty and freedom transcends from history into art. During the American Revolutionary War, Lafayette, a Frenchman, risked his life with the decision to assist the American people with the fight for freedom against England. America’s accomplishment inspired French citizens to start their own revolution against their oppressive

December 2014 Picasso’s Guernica: An analysis based on the methodologies provided by Panofsky and Barthes In January 1937, Pablo Picasso accepted the commission for a 25 foot long mural for the Spanish pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (Borja-Villel et al., 2010). This exposition was a creation of the Spanish Government in exile, at the time of the Civil War. Therefore it was imbued with political and diplomatic meanings and served as propaganda