Notes: Link from commondreams.org. Title of post from my friend e*. How does it "become extremely clever" you ask? Well, "Guernica" was painted in black and white. The author of said article uses blocks of colors to represent different countries in the UN.... Why did Picasso paint it in black and white? Because, being in Paris at the time, his experience of Guernica was through media (either newspaper photos or a documentary of a family in Guernica), thus the inspiration for a black and white painting. What does media have to do with anything? Ask yourself.
posted by valval22 at 1:04 PM PST on February 6


Oops, forgot these:
Spanish Civil War
Guernica
posted by valval22 at 1:08 PM PST on February 6


An artist's conception of what they didn't want us to see.
posted by homunculus at 1:59 PM PST on February 6


Mr. Powell can't very well seduce the world into bombing Iraq surrounded on camera by shrieking and mutilated women, men, children, bulls and horses.
posted by signal at 2:00 PM PST on February 6


Solid post, but we did discuss this before.
posted by muckster at 2:20 PM PST on February 6


Much more intresting the the previous post about the topic. Let it live!!
posted by betaray at 2:23 PM PST on February 6


Little-known artist Picasso
I assume you mean at the time he painted Guernica?
posted by mary8nne at 3:26 PM PST on February 6


Little-known artist Picasso

This is just silly; he'd been famous for almost 20 years, since he and Braque founded Cubism. Sample quote: "Ever since Picasso became famous after the first world war..."
posted by languagehat at 4:39 PM PST on February 6


Mary8nne, languagehat: I think that was sarcasm. I pictured the folks responsible saying, "It's just Picasso. Who'll notice?"

Thanks for the more extensive articles, valval22.
posted by hippugeek at 8:35 PM PST on February 6


Thanks, hippugeek, I thought the sarcasm was blatant. Around the time he painted "Guernica" he was the most (in)famous artist in the world, probably comparable to, I dunno, Michael Jackson in our time; not just an artist, but a character - partly due to the fact that he was slightly unbalanced and kind of an asshole. There was hype about him that he simply encouraged.

PS - I did try to see if it was a repeated post, and failed. Sorry 'bout that!
posted by valval22 at 6:04 AM PST on February 7


The Toronto Star: The Lessons of Guernica
posted by muckster at 3:18 PM PST on February 9


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