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Then, immediately upon hearing reports of the 26 April bombing of Guernica, poet Juan Larrea visited Picasso's home to urge him to make the bombing his subject. [1] Days later, on 1 May, Picasso read George Steer 's eyewitness account of the attack, which originally had been published in both The Times and The New York Times on 28 April, and ...
The bombing is the subject of the anti-war painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso, which was commissioned by the Spanish Republic. It was also depicted in a woodcut by the German artist Heinz Kiwitz, [9] who was later killed fighting in the International Brigades, [10] and by René Magritte in the painting Le Drapeau Noir. [11]
It was Juan Gabriel's idea, 20 years ago, Rojas said, to convert one of his Ciudad Juárez homes into a museum for the public. The museum opens the week of the eighth anniversary of his death on ...
On 28 August 2016, Juan Gabriel died in Santa Monica, California, reportedly from a heart attack. [45] Gabriel's body was cremated ; his ashes were returned to a house he owned in Ciudad Juárez , Chihuahua , after receiving tributes from the city and Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
The painting shows a key point in Gibraltar's history when the Great Siege of Gibraltar was undertaken by the Spanish against the British at Gibraltar in November 1781. [2] The Spanish officer Don Jose de Barboza is being given respect as he lies dying. Although left behind by his own retreating troops, he still unsuccessfully attacked the ...
Mask in the Rafael Coronel Museum, Zacatecas Rafael Coronel (24 October 1931 – 7 May 2019) was a Mexican painter. [1] He was the son-in-law of Diego Rivera.. His representational paintings have a melancholic sobriety, and include faces from the past great masters, often floating in a diffuse haze.
The Third of May execution was an indiscriminate killing of civilians by French soldiers in reprisal for a guerrilla attack the previous day. Goya's painting of the massacre, which shows terrified civilians facing a firing squad, was intended to arouse anger and hatred on the part of Spanish viewers.
The Una Mestiza ("A Mestiza"), sometimes referred to as La Mestiza ("The Mestiza"), is an 1887 painting by Filipino painter and hero Juan Luna. The masterpiece is also known as La mestiza en su tocador which translates into English as The Mestiza at Her Dressing Table or Mestiza Lady at Her Dresser. [1] [2] Una Mestiza is also alternately ...