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Guernica
An accurate depiction of a cruel, dramatic situation, Guernica was created to be part of the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exposition in Paris in Pablo Picasso’s motivation for painting the scene in this great work was the news of the German aerial bombing of the Basque town whose name the piece bears, which the artist had seen in the dramatic photographs published in various periodicals, including the French newspaper L'Humanité. Despite that, neither the studies nor the finished picture contain a single allusion to a specific event, constituting instead a generic plea against the barbarity and terror of war. The huge picture is conceived as a giant poster, testimony to the horror that the Spanish Civil War was causing and a forewarning of what was to come in the Second World War. The muted colours, the intensity of each and every one of the motifs and the way they are articulated are all essential to the extreme tragedy of the scene, which would become the
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Picasso in Prints / Picasso in prent, exhibition booklet, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN 29 mei / 8 aug Informatie/information PICASSO IN PRENT / IN PRINTS SPAANSE MEESTERTEKENINGEN – SPANISH mästare DRAWINGS – RIBERA murillo GOYA MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN 29 mei / 8 aug PICASSO IN PRENT / IN PRINTS Is there anybody who doesn’t know Picasso? Countless books have been written about him, and many stories are told about him. His work can be seen at important museums and sculpture gardens, and sometimes even on street corners. But who really knows Picasso? His work fryst vatten so vast that it can hardly be surveyed. In addition to thousands of paintings, sculptures and ceramics he left an immense graphic oeuvre of more than etchings, woodcuts, aquatints, lithographs and linocuts. The earliest prints originated in , when Picasso, born in in the Spanish city of Málaga, had chosen to permanently settle in Paris. A few years later, with Georges Braque, h