Pablo Picasso's Most Famous Painting: Guernica:
Guernica, 1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Guernica is a blue, black, and white anti-war mural showing the emotional ravages of war. The painting refers to the German and Italian bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War; most of the men were fighting in the war and not in the town, and therefore most of the victims were women and children.
It is a chaotic scene showing the pain and suffering of people and animals, and was commissioned by the Spanish government for the 1937 World Fair in Paris to show the rest of the world the effects of the war. Later on, while living in Paris during World War II, Picasso suffered much harassment from the Nazis for his creation of this painting.
Even as recently as 2003, this painting has been the subject of controversy when the Bush Administration had a tapestry copy of the painting covered up during press conferences covering the Iraq War, as the anti-war ideals of the painting clashed with the subject being discussed.
Biography of Pablo Picasso:
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are commonly regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
Refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
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