Word: guernica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics expect Picasso to be a significant playwright. More disturbingly, some critics feel that Picasso in his later decades is painting mainly to amuse himself. Clement Greenberg in this month's Art forum judged that since Picasso's famous Guernica, the brutal 1937 mural depicting the aerial bombardment of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, "Picasso's art has ceased being indispensable." London's Sunday Times Art Critic John Russell acknowledges that Picasso is still "the perpetual president of modern art," then adds: "This indisputably great artist has sacrificed too much in recent years to immediacy...
...devil." "This is the very opposite of what I think," said the real Oppenheimer last week. "I had never said that I regretted participating in a responsible way in the making of the bomb." In a letter to Playwright Kipphardt threatening suit, Oppenheimer added, "You may well have forgotten Guernica, Dachau, Coventry, Belsen, Warsaw, Dresden and Tokyo. I have...
...rebellious exile in France, Dali into a Franco sympathizer, Miró into a resister who stood his ground on Spanish soil. Until 1958, art and the government fought a wary underground war, and the world wondered whether the Spanish art had ended in 1937 with Picasso's Guernica...
...fired up by the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian population, killing 1,654 in a few hours. That was a Nazi show...
...French art, Piccasso and Braque are each represented by significant works. A "Cubist Composition" by Picasso hangs beside a "Cubist Composition" by Braque, capturing what surely must have been their moment of closest stylistic affinity. Picasso's Le Charnier presents a development of themes and techniques found in the "Guernica" of a few years earlier. The unfinished painting, executed in 1945, stands with the Guernica at the height of Picasso's vision of the human suffering that forms an integral part of the condition called "war." Contemporaries, both associates and rivals, of Picasso and Braque have substantial representation: Matisse, Leger...