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Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)

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Post by cguess »

habosa wrote: post #19

I went to Spain as a teenager and saw Guernica in person. It was the first painting to ever really have an effect on me. It's stunning. A perfect example of how art can transmit a message between people across time and space, I just knew that I was feeling how Picasso wanted me to feel. If you have the chance to see this painting you should, no website can do it justice (although this is a very nice try).

Every time I'm in Madrid I get up early (and since in Spain you eat at like 11pm that's not easy) and go to the museum the moment it opens just to get to Guernica and get as much time with it by myself as I can.

That early, before the tour groups have made it that far into the museum, you can actually get the entire space to yourself for >30 minutes and it's never left me not weeping.

Re: Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)

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Post by aaa_aaa »

hermitcrab wrote: post #64
aaa_aaa wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These decisions precedes the extensive use of V1 and V2, also volume and scale matters. Thats why they got the crown.

London, Bristol, Southampton, Coventry and various other English cities were heavily bombed by Germany before the UK's major bomber offensive on Germany.

Please provide source. V2 rockets used in 1944.

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Post by dominictorresmo »

garethsprice wrote: post #77
dominictorresmo wrote: post #62

I don't understand why picasso is famous and considered a great artist

I didn't either until I saw some of his early paintings and learned he was a brilliant classical painter from a very young age (eg. "Portrait of aunt Pepa", at 14). The later surrealism and abstraction weren't due to a lack of technical skill, but his deliberate choice to create a new visual language that would reflect the rapidly changing world around him. That shift also reflected the era he lived in - one where vi…

I didn't know that, that's very cool! I'll do more research about him. Thanks!

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Post by dominictorresmo »

jihadjihad wrote: post #68
dominictorresmo wrote: post #62

I don't understand why picasso is famous and considered a great artist

Picasso was an artistic prodigy from an early age, and was talented at painting in the styles of the day like realism etc. The reason why he is influential and not forgotten is that he took painting in an entirely new direction and was able to convey emotion and philosophical ideas (like in Guernica, for example) in a completely different way than what was typical at the time. In a lot of his work he strips things do…

put philosophical ideas in to paintings is an awesome idea! I'll look more of him. Thanks!

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Post by hermitcrab »

aaa_aaa wrote: post #83
hermitcrab wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

London, Bristol, Southampton, Coventry and various other English cities were heavily bombed by Germany before the UK's major bomber offensive on Germany.

Please provide source. V2 rockets used in 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

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Post by garethsprice »

dominictorresmo wrote: post #84
garethsprice wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't either until I saw some of his early paintings and learned he was a brilliant classical painter from a very young age (eg. "Portrait of aunt Pepa", at 14). The later surrealism and abstraction weren't due to a lack of technical skill, but his deliberate choice to create a new visual language that would reflect the rapidly changing world around him. That shift also reflected the era he lived in - one where vi…

I didn't know that, that's very cool! I'll do more research about him. Thanks!

It was a good question. Investigating why people like $popular_thing that you just don't get is a good way to broaden the mind.

I hope it leads to interesting discoveries and more art to appreciate for you!

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Post by germandiago »

rainingmonkey wrote: post #72
germandiago wrote: post #58

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I am spanish and I know the details better than you I presume. Guernica was in many ways something both the british and republicans made stand out for propaganda. There have been far worse things in the spanish civil wars. For example Cabra was bombed in a day of market with the intention of killing and without being any kind of strategic strategic objective, way further than Guernica from other objectives and with m…

>with the intention of killing and without being any kind of strategic strategic objective Wikipedia says "The airstrike was carried out in the mistaken belief that Italian mechanized troops were stationed in the village. Once over the target, the pilots mistook the market's awnings for military tents." (Carlos Saiz Cidoncha, 2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cabra

Thanks because I did not know this piece of information. So maybe what I had was incomplete.
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