Guernica
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Paralysed state...Pakistan whose voices are being drowned out by a rising, shrill cacophony of madness. The state of affairs in Pakistan reminds me of Picasso's Guernica - which is what all of Pakistan appears to have become. And, sadly, we know how long that... In this article: Pakistan, Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, United States, Pakistan Army, Islam, Democracy, Suicide, Paralysis, and Asif Ali Zardari |
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L.A. Times - Commentary | November 20, 2009
MOCA renews museums' mission
...time. Whether as residents of a city or as tourists, they want to visit the stars of the permanent collection. They seek out Picasso's "Guernica" at the Reina Sofia in Spain; they look for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris; they stand in...
In this article: Los Angeles, Revenue, Water Lilies, Mona Lisa, Los Angeles Times, and Pablo Picasso
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Guardian | November 19, 2009
John Craxton obituary
...by a friend's father from a Scout camp in France to the Paris World Exposition. They went only to the Spanish pavilion - for Picasso's Guernica. He had an amazing memory to the last but blotted out the exhibited photographs of civil war...
In this article: John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Pablo Picasso, Bedsore, Crete, Samuel Palmer, Frederick Ashton, and Margot Fonteyn
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PopMatters | November 15, 2009
Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut (Review)
...who you ask. "One can intellectualize it ...or just gawk at its ugliness", says Tommy Lee Jones, alluding to Picasso's anti-war mural Guernica. Jones would know, having studied satire in preparation for his raving caricature of a...
In this article: Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, Quentin Tarantino, and Trent Reznor
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New York Post | November 15, 2009
Met knocks 'em 'Dead
...the most brutal of the thugs. To single out members of this ensemble for praise is as irrelevant as parsing the brush strokes of Picasso's "Guernica." That said, worthy of accolades are Kurt Streit, deftly bending his pristine tenor to...
In this article: From the House of the Dead, Leos Janacek, Dostoyevsky, Pablo Picasso, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Patrice Chereau
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The Australian | November 13, 2009
Don't call in the cleaners
...worth. In 1962, Picasso defaced a roofing tile with a smiley face. The painting is cute enough but has nothing on the sprawling, Guernica-esque murals adorning the brick wastelands of my inner-city 'hood. A warehouse wall near my...
In this article: Pablo Picasso, Australian Taxation Office, Esquire, Still Life with Fruit, HarperCollins, and Caravaggio
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Telegraph.co.uk - Motoring | November 09, 2009
The Porsche 911 as an artist's muse
Throwing in a moody sunset or a little boy sitting on a fence, waving, doesn't really add anything. Back to Picasso for a moment. Guernica would seem to me to be something very complicated about the impact of the event on the human...
In this article: Pablo Picasso, Porsche 911, and Kia Sedona
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washingtonpost.com | November 05, 2009
Francisco Ayala, 103; Spanish author, Franco foe
...war had on those who stayed and those who left. Compitello likened Mr. Ayala's work to the power of Pablo Picasso's mural-size painting "Guernica," which depicts the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. "Ayala's profound analysis described...
In this article: Francisco Ayala, Francisco Franco, Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Civil War, Princeton University, Pablo Picasso, and Madrid
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mgoblog | November 04, 2009
Guernica in Maize
...catastrophic failure against Illinois has left in its wake a fan base wretched in suffering. And anger. And chaos. And despair. A veritable Guernica in Maize. Pablo Picasso's renowned painting might as well have been painted in the aftermath of...
In this article: Michigan, Rich Rodriguez, Maize, Ohio State, Penn State, and Juice Williams
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Times Online | October 31, 2009
AIG, Bank of America and Citigroup must have a bonus reality check
...this seems to have some logic but, in the real world, these coves are full of it. For a start, they wouldn't know talent if it painted Guernica while cracking the Riemann hypothesis. After all, it was their best people who got them into this...
In this article: Citigroup, Bank of America, AIG, Attorney General, Business Week, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs
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Winston-Salem Journal | October 28, 2009
Carolina Ballet's 'Picasso' a work of art
...management Lara O'Brien dances in the dress rehersal for "Picasso" with fellow company member Oliver Beres. O'Brien is a soloist in "Guernica." The performance was put on by the Carolina Ballet on Oct. 15th in the Fletcher Opera Theater.
In this article: Pablo Picasso, Salome, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Pierrot
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Guernica is a monumental painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The attack killed between 250 and 1,600 people, and many more were injured.
The Spanish government commissioned Pablo Picasso to paint a large mural for the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition (the 1937 World's Fair in Paris). The Guernica bombing inspired Picasso. Within 15 days of the attack, Pablo Picasso began painting this mural. On completion Guernica was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed. This tour brought the Spanish civil war to the world's attention. Guernica epitomizes the tragedies of war and the suffering war inflicts upon individuals. This monumental work has eclipsed the bounds of a single time and place, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace.
- Name:
- Guernica
- Type:
- Oil on canvas
- Location City:
- Madrid
- Date:
- 1937
- Location:
- Museo Reina Sofia
- Artist:
- Pablo Picasso
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