Word: guernica
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...only refused to collaborate with the Germans, said: "I even annoyed them." Said he: "They forbade my works to be shown because Hitler named me . . . decadent. But simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me. When they left I presented them with a souvenir postcard of my painting Guernica...
...kinds of Picassos were hung-from the posterish Harlequin to the Seated Woman (see cut), an example of Picasso's attempt to capture a figure from several angles simultaneously. Dropped at the last minute was a plan to show a large reproduction of Picasso's famed Guernica mural, a graphically violent protest against Franco's atrocities during the Spanish Civil...
...should be "humanized," Laborite Lord Winster publicly responded: "General Franco has been kind enough to suggest that we should be thinking about peace and ought to stop bombing, which is repugnant to his gentle soul. We remember, of course, how his humanity was stirred when Germany and Italy bombed Guernica and other Spanish cities. ... It is kind of General Franco to spare time from his preoccupation as a ruler of the most backward, derelict, poverty-stricken, starving, illiterate, reactionary country in Europe to tell us how to manage our affairs. This great Christian would not of course tell...
...purest examples of atonal music ever composed by Schoenberg or any of his pupils, which is not to say that it is the last word in musical anarchy, but only that it represents in the language of notes what Finnegan's Wake does in the language of words, or Guernica in painting a dissolution of the old formal bases of art, the concept of tonality in music, of grammar in writing, and of pictorialism in the visual arts. And so to appreciate Pierrot, the listener's hearing apparatus must go through a similar process of dissolution, and come...
...bitterness and heart-sickness, the same neurotic introversion, and it strikes that note of the deliberately bizarre and macabre that is one of the surest tokens of decadent art. The only other contemporary work of art that can be compared to it in this respect is Picasso's mural Guernica. That also embodies an incredible amount of pure horror, with the total effect bordering on hysteria...