I just read Picasso’s War, the story of his creation of the painting by the same name, the history of Spain that inspired the painting, and the subsequent activity around the painting from 1937 to 2002 when the book was published.
Picasso is one of my favorite artists. Guernica is one of his signature paintings. I remember the discussion in my first modern art course about it (modern art – at least in that course at MIT – was defined as post-impressionist art forward, Picasso was the anchor of all modern art, and Guernica was one of the most – if not the most – important piece of his work.)
I was vaguely familiar with the actual story of Guernica (the destruction of the Spanish town as well as the creation… Read more
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