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  2. Guernica (Picasso) - Wikipedia

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    Guernica was painted using a matte house paint specially formulated at Picasso's request to have the least possible gloss. [1] American artist John Ferren assisted him in preparing the monumental canvas, [ 22 ] and photographer Dora Maar , who had been working with Picasso since mid-1936 photographing his studio and teaching him the technique ...

  3. Pablo Picasso - Wikipedia

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    Picasso with his sister Lola, 1889. Picasso was born at 23:15 on 25 October 1881, in the city of Málaga, Andalusia, in southern Spain. [5] He was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López. [14]

  4. The Weeping Woman - Wikipedia

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    During the creation of Guernica, Picasso made his first studies of a weeping woman on 24 May 1937, however, it was not to be included in the composition of Guernica.An image of the weeping woman was inserted in the lower right of the painting, but this was removed by Picasso, who considered that it would upstage the agonised expressions of the four women in the painting.

  5. This 10-Year-Old Art Prodigy’s Latest Painting, Inspired by ...

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    [Picasso] made the painting for Guernica and didn’t want the people of Guernica to be forgotten.” Lupe says they hope to raise at least half a million dollars for Ukraine with the 500 prints ...

  6. The Dream and Lie of Franco - Wikipedia

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    The images form a sequence like those in a comic book (in particular, the Spanish auca) and have a loose narrative: [1] [2] Franco's form changes from panel to panel. The Spanish dictator's appearance has been likened by various writers to a "jackbooted phallus", [7] "an evil-omened polyp" [6] and "a grotesque homunculus with a head like a gesticulating and tuberous sweet potato".

  7. Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)

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    [4] Picasso's response to these turbulent events was to focus all of his attention on the monumental work of Guernica at the beginning of 1937. [5] Both Walter and Maar played a significant role in the creation of Guernica, with Walter appearing at least twice in the composition. Maar played a more practical role in the development of the work ...

  8. 1937 in art - Wikipedia

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    [1] May 1 – June 4 – Pablo Picasso paints Guernica , a large cubistic monochrome oil painting created in reaction to the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of the same name on 26 April. It is first exhibited in July at the Spanish Republican government pavilion (designed by Josep Lluís Sert ) in the Exposition Internationale des ...

  9. Simon Schama's Power of Art - Wikipedia

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    The work is one of Picasso's cubist works, where its subject matter revolved around, “The most notorious bombing of the century.” [10] The artwork spans 7.77m wide and 3.49 high. The episode outlines that the message intended from the artwork was to exemplify the horrors and damages of war and act as an anti-war symbol.