Guernica

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Despite the heavyweight backing, though, the reaction to Guernica was little different than it had been in Paris two years earlier. It gave me angles on things that I hadn’t necessarily thought about before and yet is still a very good book to read if you are an absolute beginner on the subject. Children fused together, mothers crushed under rubble, old men incinerated – the horror is amplified by the hideous cynicism of attacking a civilian population.

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Steer, a small, wiry, ginger-haired South African, was the son of a well-respected Cape newspaperman, Bernard Steer.

As she explains in her 2018 book, Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930–1970, Steer actually mentored the famous suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst and her long-time partner, Sylvio Corio, in the granular details of the Ethiopian war. After Francisco Franco's victory in Spain, Guernica was sent to the United States to raise funds and support for Spanish refugees. Monday was Guernica's market day, and many of its inhabitants were congregated in the center of town. Thanks to the exceptional loan of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía of numerous sketches and post-scriptums of Guernica, the genesis of the artwork is presented from the bullfights to Minotauromachies in the 1930’s until the bursting of the Spanish civil war in Picasso’s life and art. Then, one afternoon in late April, Picasso was sitting at his usual table at the Flore when the Spanish poet Juan Larrea jumped out of a taxi and accosted him.

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According to scholar Beverly Ray, the following list of interpretations reflects the general consensus of historians: "The shape and posture of the bodies express protest"; "Picasso uses black, white, and grey paint to set a somber mood and express pain and chaos"; "flaming buildings and crumbling walls not only express the destruction of Guernica, but reflect the destructive power of civil war"; "the newspaper print used in the painting reflects how Picasso learned of the massacre"; "The light bulb in the painting represents the sun"; and "The broken sword near the bottom of the painting symbolizes the defeat of the people at the hand of their tormentors".So little sympathy did Guernica generate that the French papers greeted it with almost complete silence. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this beautiful novel about the resilience of family, love, and tradition in the face of hardship. A Look Inside Picasso's War Images", discourse: An Online Journal by the students of Southern Methodist University, Spring 2006.

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We are fighting for the independence of our country and for the right of the Spanish people to determine their own destiny.

Steer was one of four foreign journalists in the area and was partially responsible for spreading news of the attack contrary to Franco, who at first denied that the attack had occurred. Undaunted, Steer left Spain for Paris after writing a passionate piece about Bilbao’s heroic last stand against Franco’s troops. In 1992, the painting was moved from the Museo del Prado to a purpose-built gallery at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, both in Madrid, along with about two dozen preparatory works.