Guernica

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It is also an abundantly quoted, commented and taken up artwork, theorized by art historians and artists.

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The result is a wonderful and thought-provoking mini-epic packed full of fascinating, little-known European history, rich characters and empathy. He managed to track down the people who were boasting in bars that they had shot Lorca because he was gay! Exhibited, reproduced everywhere in the world, this work was all at once an anti Francoist, anti-Fascist and pacifist symbol, which the artist kept the traces in his own archives. There is that sense of the rich cornucopia of characters and topics which, as I mentioned before, is what got me interested in the subject all those years ago. He later added other conditions, such as the restoration of "public liberties and democratic institutions".

At Picasso's request the safekeeping of Guernica was then entrusted to the Museum of Modern Art, and it was his expressed desire that the painting should not be delivered to Spain until liberty and democracy had been established in the country. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and then at other venues around the world. By this time, concern for the state of the painting resulted in a decision to keep it in one place: a room on MoMA's third floor, where it was accompanied by several of Picasso's preliminary studies and some of Dora Maar's photographs of the work in progress. Before reading this book what I knew of the Spanish Civil War was that Hemingway once wrote a book based upon it. During the Vietnam War, the room containing the painting became the site of occasional anti-war vigils.

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In 2012 the tapestry was on loan from the Rockefeller family to the San Antonio Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas. As we follow our protagonists through adolescence, adulthood, marriage, birth, and in some cases, death, all the characters sort of mesh together and develop the same voice.

With the farm barely sufficient for one small family, Justo dispatches his brothers, Xabier to the seminary, Josepe to Lekeitio, a fishing village.

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So reading this historical fiction about probably the most horrific event of that war was not likely except for the recommendation of a GR friend(Mary Ann thank you) to whom I am once again indebted.In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the Spanish Civil Guard and flees the Basque fishing village of Lekeitio to make a new start in Guernica, the centre of Basque culture and tradition. Now, suddenly, the diagonals are accentuated, and thereby space becomes ambiguous, unreal, inside and outside at the same time.

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When the main bombardment began the roads were already full of debris and the bridges leading out of town destroyed, and they were unable to escape. Miren Ansotegui is a charismatic and graceful dancer who has her pick of the bachelors in Guernica, but focuses only on the charming and mysterious Miguel. Boling's characters became so much more than 2 dimensional, they became living, breathing characters in my own life.

Several Spanish officials suggested taking it down and replacing it with a different work altogether. Guernica is a treasure that will endear itself to almost any reader that enjoys a good story blended seamlessly with good history. Originally commissioned in 1955 by Nelson Rockefeller, since Picasso refused to sell him the original, [50] the tapestry was placed on loan to the United Nations by the Rockefeller estate in 1985.