Word: guernica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masterpiece of the Blue Period, an altar-piece of modern painting. Its cool blues, El Grecoesque modeling of the light on the draperies, and monumental rendering add up to the finest work by Picasso I can remember having seen--for good measure I'm even tempted to throw in Guernica! This painting is seen to best advantage on an overcast day when the Fogg puts an overhead light upon it. The best setting for it, however, would be the magnificent shadowed light of an Early Gothic Church. The other works in the gallery include another fine Blue Period Picasso, four...
...vulnerable realm of the first person singular and juggle an ingenuity, a coquetry, a sense of invention, which may triumph but which, on the other hand, may adulterate the goal. Picasso is a conspicuous example of one who has used personal invention to the most effective degree, witness a Guernica or a Weeping Woman. On the other hand, fatalities exist too. The ingenuities of the twenties no longer spread as far as they once did. The first days of true retrospective judgment on that era are just commencing...
Just how clean were the bombs which that "Christian gentleman," the Caudillo, dropped on helpless Guernica after the city had surrendered...
...Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years ago; one of the most recent is the symbolic bull in Picasso's heroless Guernica. Tied together with texts culled from sources that range from the Bible to the works of Carl Jung, Mrs. Norman's show is sure to make the viewer ponder even if he does not agree with the far-reaching thesis...
Judging from this exhibition one night imagine, that the schism between poetry and Strum and Drang lies in intensity of emotion or dramatic nature of the subject. Actually Goya's "Disasters of War," certainly more graphic than anything here, or Picasso's "Guernica," more symbolic and abstract than anything here, answer an emphatic no. For if Barlach, Kollwitz, Grosz, et al, utter an emotional cry from the blackness of chaos and confusion, it is Picasso and Goya who offer, with emotion disciplined. "right" and "inevitable," an answer which cannot help being true...