Pablo Picasso's Guernica

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Pablo Picasso. A household name to many - be it good or bad. Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. He is best known, as pablopicasso.org states, “for co-founding the cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.” This was an odd progression considering the fact that most of his younger years were spent painting in a mostly realistic style. This all began to change around the 12th century, when Picasso began to push the limits of his creativity and the mediums he experimented with. A few of these numerous mediums were oil paintings, sculpture, drawings, and even architecture. Maybe his use of a vast range of mediums was part of the reason he became so renowned or maybe he it was the boundaries of art and plagiarism he was pushing. Either way, Picasso gained a mass audience and a major fortune in his own lifetime. Something no other artist before him had achieved. His artworks were and still are the “subjects of unending analysis, gossip, dislike, adoration and rumor”, according to Pablopicasso.org. Perhaps one of his most famous and strongest political statements made in a painting was made in his work, Guernica. So what does Pablo Picasso have to say about the meaning and rationale behind Guernica, what’s his voice in the matter?

Guernica was initially a work that Picasso was to create for the Spanish Pavilion in 1937’s World Fair in Paris. Guernica didn’t come to Picasso easily though. Pbs.org states that Pablo Picasso searched for inspiration for “three months” before “April 27th, 1937 when unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen fo...

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