The Colours of Guernica
A Man For Postmodernism ~ Pablo Picasso's Truth
I like the warmth conveyed in this piece.
Three Women, Pablo Picasso
With the exception of ‘Guernica’, I’ve never been a fan of Picasso, preferring more romantic pleasures of some of his more representational predecessors - I never actually ‘got’ Picasso. I perceive this possibly to be a glaring sign of immaturity on my part. Today I was struck by the blatantly obvious fact that, unlike his wives, Pablo Picasso treated his nude models with absolute respect. Not content to portray their bodies as open books, he fragmented them; returned them to the mystery of human consciousness. I have often thought him misogynistic carving women up like apples with his palette knives, maybe angry at his mother for what she never knew existed, it's all so Oedipal. I haven't come to like his work any more now than I did before, but I certainly have a greater appreciation for it's "intellectual taste."
Funny how Picasso's Guernica represents my blood in Taurus rising, Scorpio in turmoil and love lingers there... it represents how I sometimes feel. This painting changes how we see war even to the point of censorship.
Guernica, Pablo Picasso
Right-click to open page in new window:
Guernica, Pablo Picasso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting)
Guernica Croatica ~ Inspirations
"ARENGARIO" - Pallazo Reale (Zanki, Jelavić, Vrkljan, Kuliš, Šimunović) MILANO 1991 Italia
source: http://www.izabelasimunovic.com/exhibitions.htm
Postmodern Political Art ~ Guernica
Tonic Moment: Problem Drawing, Francis Berry
source: http://francisberry.com/postmodern_art/postmodern_political_art.htm
How much brutality does it take to shock the world these days?
Guernica ~ A Poem by Aaron Kramer
Dead. Dead. Every child. Shriek out
from the stormed park, the smothered school-yard! Shout!
because this quiet shocks the sky as much
as the first roar of the bombers.
Noise became
expected: ears survived. Even the touch
of shadows changing, that had stayed the same
for hundreds of holy years, became expected.
But the planes went, and all unresurrected
lies the city: not one sudden wonder
has risen to mock the bombs. Are you afraid?
Those were no eagles; all their titan thunder
man made by human hands.
Grant Icarus shade
or he will fall again! Mothers, grow wild,
shriek out! Dead. Dead. Every child.
(”Guernica”, by Aaron Kramer, with the inscription: “Holy City of Spain destroyed by Fascist bombs”)
source: http://www.doublepluscool.com/blog/?p=708
Dali's Guernica of Baked Beans and Human Beings
Here's how Dali described "Visage of War": "I was entering a period of rigor and asceticism which was going to dominate my style, my thoughts, and my tormented life. Spain on fire would light up this drama of the renaissance of aesthetics. Spain would serve as a holocaust to that post-war Europe tortured by ideological dramas, by moral and artistic anxieties.... At one feel swoop, from the middle of the Spanish cadaver, springs up. Half-devoured by vermin and ideological worms, the Iberian penis in erection, huge like a cathedral filled with the white dynamite of hatred. Bury and Unbury ! Disinter and Inter ! In order to unbury again ! Such was the charnel desire of the Civil War in that impatient Spain. One would see how she was capable of suffering; of making others suffer, of burying and unburying, of killing and resurrecting. In was necessary to scratch the earth to exhume tradition and to profane everything in order to be dazzled anew by all the treasures that the land was hiding in its entrails."
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) 1936 Salvador Dalí
Premonition of Civil War and Man's Inhumanity to Man is Salvador Dalí's gruesome allegory of the Spanish Civil War depicts his homeland as a deformed body tearing itself apart. It was painted shortly before General Franco's nationalist forces revolted against the democratic government of the Spanish Republic. Dalí later described the painting as "a vast human body breaking out into monstrous excrescences of arms and legs tearing at one another in a delirium of autostrangulation."
source: http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51315.html
Icons Four The 21st Century ~ Fad Gallery and Bar
"COOL JESUS, WARHOL, PICASSO & DALI + "SBS digital life" FAD Gallery Melbourne 2004 Australia
source: http://www.izabelasimunovic.com/2004fadgallery.htm
Guernica ~ A Living Nightmare ~ Being led by leading art
Have you ever imagined to be inside a work of art? Artist Lena Gieseke provides to us a similar experience with his three-dimensional interpretation of the most classic work of Picasso, the Guernica. (¿Alguna vez has imaginado estar dentro de una obra de arte? La artista Lena Gieseke nos proporciona una experiencia similar con su interpretación tridimensional de la obra más clásica de Picasso, el Guernica.)
LENA GIESEKE - 3D GUERNICA
source: http://dependentmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/05/lena-gieseke-3d-guernica.html
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2006/12/being_led_by_le_1.html
Basquing in Iraq ~ A Tribute to Guernica
source: image/ http://www.devoid.co.uk/guernica/
Is there not a similar conspiracy afoot in our midst, masking behind "the war on terror" ? Iraq, possibly the grandest scale of attack since the Basque. Redux revisits the plot and Basque attack. Click on image to read subplot...
Click on Devoid excerpt of image above to read subplot...
Protecting our delicate sensibilities
The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.
* * *
A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings. ~ Tom Tom, This Modern World
source: http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_02_02.html#000158
The United Nations of Art ~ Turning an Eye to Third Eye Blind
source: http://www.freakingnews.com/UN-Building-Guernica-Pics-19241.asp
Things overheard in a dream...
Izabela's SBS prints 7th - 19th May 2007 Wall Gallery, Melbourne Australia 2007
source: http://www.izabelasimunovic.com/SBS.htm
Survivors of Guernica ~ Witnesses Speak
Right-click to open video in new window:
Emision en diferido
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/70-aos-del-bombardeo-de-guernica/8077779/
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Still Moments from Emision en diferido
The Basque Attack ~ As Recorded by George Steer of The Times
Looking beyond the canvas, the following article may be able to shed some light on this old mystery of Guernica, removing some of the mystique. The following excerpts are from that writing.
"(The planning of the attack was murderously logical and efficient. Its aim was unquestionably to terrorize the Basque Government into surrender by showing them what Bilbao may soon expect. Yet, so far from having that effect, it may even defeat its object. It may merely inspire the proud democrats of Vizcaya with a passionate determination to fight to the end, and it may well shock the patriotism of the other half of the Basque nation which is fighting on the insurgent side.
At 2 a.m. to-day [27 April 1937] when I visited the town the whole of it was a horrible sight, flaming from end to end. The reflection of the flames could be seen in the clouds of smoke above the mountains from 10 miles away. Throughout the night houses were falling until the streets became long heaps of red impenetrable débris. Many of the civilian survivors took the long trek from Guernica to Bilbao in antique solid-wheeled Basque farmcarts drawn by oxen. Carts piled high with such household possessions as could be saved from the conflagration clogged the roads all night.
In the form of its execution and the scale of the destruction it wrought, no less than in the selection of its objective, the raid on Guernica is unparalleled in military history. Guernica was not a military objective. A factory producing war material lay outside the town and was untouched. So were two barracks some distance from the town. The town lay far behind the lines. The object of the bombardment was seemingly the demoralization of the civil population and the destruction of the cradle of the Basque race.
It is impossible to state yet the number of victims. In the Bilbao Press this morning they were reported as “fortunately small,” but it is feared that this was an understatement in order not to alarm the large refugee population of Bilbao. In the hospital of Josefinas, which was one of the first places bombed, all the 43 wounded militiamen it sheltered were killed outright. In a street leading downhill from the Case de Juntas I saw a place where 50 people, nearly all women and children, are said to have been trapped in an air raid refuge under a mass of burning wreckage. Many were killed in the fields, and altogether the deaths may run into hundreds. An elderly priest named Aronategui was killed by a bomb while rescuing children from a burning house.) ~ George Steer Correspondent With "The Times"
I don’t really get Guernica - the painting, that is, not the event... I understand that it’s a passionate reaction by a great artist to the tragedy unfolding in his own country. It’s physically imposing, rich in symbolism and, by now, a part of history itself. I’d love to see it one day. But what I don’t get is how, and why, Picasso’s Guernica came to be seen as a more powerful reaction to the coming of total war than this:" ~ Airminded
Right-click to open page in new window:
Guernica from Airminded
http://airminded.org/2007/04/26/guernica-i/
http://airminded.org/2007/05/04/guernica-ii/
http://airminded.org/2007/05/16/guernica-iii/
http://airminded.org/2007/05/28/guernica-iv/
3D Exploration of Picasso's Guernica
Guernica Redux ~ Basquing in The Blue Period
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Redux Guernica, Picasso Old Guitarist
There is truth deeper than that surface, which we call art, which is life, and you Redux have touched the motherlode with a golden knife...
"As the US made its case for what was to become a misguided and tragic war the very icon that might have given the UN members and the American public pause in their deliberation was banished from view. A tapestry copy of Picasso’s Guernica, hanging outside the entrance to the Security Council, was draped." ~ Rabbit Redux Cowboy Earth
Mad Cowboy Redux
http://47roswell.blogspot.com/2007/07/guernica-redux.html
Guernica Redux
http://cowboy47.livejournal.com/3664.html
Pablo Picasso 20th century painter and founder of cubism
http://emptyeasel.com/2007/06/19/pablo-picasso-20th-century-painter-and-founder-of-cubism/
Well, we've got the ceilings, now we just need the floor tiles...
Casa de Juntas de Guernica
This, it seems to me, is in direct conflict with what we are as artists...
“Becoming self-reliant means that we must relinquish our ego and self-pride. Ego confines us by elaborating set ideas of who we think ourselves to be.” Secrets of the Golden Spiral pg 511
There is simple sweet life and then there is struggle and growth. How can we be both and still feel whole? I for one am torn by this.
Pablo Picasso Was Never Called Asshole
Pablo Picasso as himself
source: http://time-blog.com/looking_around/2007/07/
Who Is Pablo Picasso?
http://emptyeasel.com/2007/06/19/pablo-picasso-20th-century-painter-and-founder-of-cubism/
.
I like the warmth conveyed in this piece.
Three Women, Pablo Picasso
With the exception of ‘Guernica’, I’ve never been a fan of Picasso, preferring more romantic pleasures of some of his more representational predecessors - I never actually ‘got’ Picasso. I perceive this possibly to be a glaring sign of immaturity on my part. Today I was struck by the blatantly obvious fact that, unlike his wives, Pablo Picasso treated his nude models with absolute respect. Not content to portray their bodies as open books, he fragmented them; returned them to the mystery of human consciousness. I have often thought him misogynistic carving women up like apples with his palette knives, maybe angry at his mother for what she never knew existed, it's all so Oedipal. I haven't come to like his work any more now than I did before, but I certainly have a greater appreciation for it's "intellectual taste."
Funny how Picasso's Guernica represents my blood in Taurus rising, Scorpio in turmoil and love lingers there... it represents how I sometimes feel. This painting changes how we see war even to the point of censorship.
Guernica, Pablo Picasso
Right-click to open page in new window:
Guernica, Pablo Picasso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting)
Guernica Croatica ~ Inspirations
"ARENGARIO" - Pallazo Reale (Zanki, Jelavić, Vrkljan, Kuliš, Šimunović) MILANO 1991 Italia
source: http://www.izabelasimunovic.com/exhibitions.htm
Postmodern Political Art ~ Guernica
Tonic Moment: Problem Drawing, Francis Berry
source: http://francisberry.com/postmodern_art/postmodern_political_art.htm
How much brutality does it take to shock the world these days?
Guernica ~ A Poem by Aaron Kramer
Dead. Dead. Every child. Shriek out
from the stormed park, the smothered school-yard! Shout!
because this quiet shocks the sky as much
as the first roar of the bombers.
Noise became
expected: ears survived. Even the touch
of shadows changing, that had stayed the same
for hundreds of holy years, became expected.
But the planes went, and all unresurrected
lies the city: not one sudden wonder
has risen to mock the bombs. Are you afraid?
Those were no eagles; all their titan thunder
man made by human hands.
Grant Icarus shade
or he will fall again! Mothers, grow wild,
shriek out! Dead. Dead. Every child.
(”Guernica”, by Aaron Kramer, with the inscription: “Holy City of Spain destroyed by Fascist bombs”)
source: http://www.doublepluscool.com/blog/?p=708
Dali's Guernica of Baked Beans and Human Beings
Here's how Dali described "Visage of War": "I was entering a period of rigor and asceticism which was going to dominate my style, my thoughts, and my tormented life. Spain on fire would light up this drama of the renaissance of aesthetics. Spain would serve as a holocaust to that post-war Europe tortured by ideological dramas, by moral and artistic anxieties.... At one feel swoop, from the middle of the Spanish cadaver, springs up. Half-devoured by vermin and ideological worms, the Iberian penis in erection, huge like a cathedral filled with the white dynamite of hatred. Bury and Unbury ! Disinter and Inter ! In order to unbury again ! Such was the charnel desire of the Civil War in that impatient Spain. One would see how she was capable of suffering; of making others suffer, of burying and unburying, of killing and resurrecting. In was necessary to scratch the earth to exhume tradition and to profane everything in order to be dazzled anew by all the treasures that the land was hiding in its entrails."
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) 1936 Salvador Dalí
Premonition of Civil War and Man's Inhumanity to Man is Salvador Dalí's gruesome allegory of the Spanish Civil War depicts his homeland as a deformed body tearing itself apart. It was painted shortly before General Franco's nationalist forces revolted against the democratic government of the Spanish Republic. Dalí later described the painting as "a vast human body breaking out into monstrous excrescences of arms and legs tearing at one another in a delirium of autostrangulation."
source: http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51315.html
Icons Four The 21st Century ~ Fad Gallery and Bar
"COOL JESUS, WARHOL, PICASSO & DALI + "SBS digital life" FAD Gallery Melbourne 2004 Australia
source: http://www.izabelasimunovic.com/2004fadgallery.htm
Guernica ~ A Living Nightmare ~ Being led by leading art
Have you ever imagined to be inside a work of art? Artist Lena Gieseke provides to us a similar experience with his three-dimensional interpretation of the most classic work of Picasso, the Guernica. (¿Alguna vez has imaginado estar dentro de una obra de arte? La artista Lena Gieseke nos proporciona una experiencia similar con su interpretación tridimensional de la obra más clásica de Picasso, el Guernica.)
LENA GIESEKE - 3D GUERNICA
source: http://dependentmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/05/lena-gieseke-3d-guernica.html
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2006/12/being_led_by_le_1.html
Basquing in Iraq ~ A Tribute to Guernica
source: image/ http://www.devoid.co.uk/guernica/
Is there not a similar conspiracy afoot in our midst, masking behind "the war on terror" ? Iraq, possibly the grandest scale of attack since the Basque. Redux revisits the plot and Basque attack. Click on image to read subplot...
Click on Devoid excerpt of image above to read subplot...
Protecting our delicate sensibilities
The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.
* * *
A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings. ~ Tom Tom, This Modern World
source: http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2003_02_02.html#000158
The United Nations of Art ~ Turning an Eye to Third Eye Blind
source: http://www.freakingnews.com/UN-Building-Guernica-Pics-19241.asp
Things overheard in a dream...
Izabela's SBS prints 7th - 19th May 2007 Wall Gallery, Melbourne Australia 2007
source: http://www.izabelasimunovic.com/SBS.htm
Survivors of Guernica ~ Witnesses Speak
Right-click to open video in new window:
Emision en diferido
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/70-aos-del-bombardeo-de-guernica/8077779/
.
.
Still Moments from Emision en diferido
The Basque Attack ~ As Recorded by George Steer of The Times
Looking beyond the canvas, the following article may be able to shed some light on this old mystery of Guernica, removing some of the mystique. The following excerpts are from that writing.
"(The planning of the attack was murderously logical and efficient. Its aim was unquestionably to terrorize the Basque Government into surrender by showing them what Bilbao may soon expect. Yet, so far from having that effect, it may even defeat its object. It may merely inspire the proud democrats of Vizcaya with a passionate determination to fight to the end, and it may well shock the patriotism of the other half of the Basque nation which is fighting on the insurgent side.
At 2 a.m. to-day [27 April 1937] when I visited the town the whole of it was a horrible sight, flaming from end to end. The reflection of the flames could be seen in the clouds of smoke above the mountains from 10 miles away. Throughout the night houses were falling until the streets became long heaps of red impenetrable débris. Many of the civilian survivors took the long trek from Guernica to Bilbao in antique solid-wheeled Basque farmcarts drawn by oxen. Carts piled high with such household possessions as could be saved from the conflagration clogged the roads all night.
In the form of its execution and the scale of the destruction it wrought, no less than in the selection of its objective, the raid on Guernica is unparalleled in military history. Guernica was not a military objective. A factory producing war material lay outside the town and was untouched. So were two barracks some distance from the town. The town lay far behind the lines. The object of the bombardment was seemingly the demoralization of the civil population and the destruction of the cradle of the Basque race.
It is impossible to state yet the number of victims. In the Bilbao Press this morning they were reported as “fortunately small,” but it is feared that this was an understatement in order not to alarm the large refugee population of Bilbao. In the hospital of Josefinas, which was one of the first places bombed, all the 43 wounded militiamen it sheltered were killed outright. In a street leading downhill from the Case de Juntas I saw a place where 50 people, nearly all women and children, are said to have been trapped in an air raid refuge under a mass of burning wreckage. Many were killed in the fields, and altogether the deaths may run into hundreds. An elderly priest named Aronategui was killed by a bomb while rescuing children from a burning house.) ~ George Steer Correspondent With "The Times"
I don’t really get Guernica - the painting, that is, not the event... I understand that it’s a passionate reaction by a great artist to the tragedy unfolding in his own country. It’s physically imposing, rich in symbolism and, by now, a part of history itself. I’d love to see it one day. But what I don’t get is how, and why, Picasso’s Guernica came to be seen as a more powerful reaction to the coming of total war than this:" ~ Airminded
Right-click to open page in new window:
Guernica from Airminded
http://airminded.org/2007/04/26/guernica-i/
http://airminded.org/2007/05/04/guernica-ii/
http://airminded.org/2007/05/16/guernica-iii/
http://airminded.org/2007/05/28/guernica-iv/
3D Exploration of Picasso's Guernica
Click to viewGuernica Redux ~ Basquing in The Blue Period
.
Redux Guernica, Picasso Old Guitarist
There is truth deeper than that surface, which we call art, which is life, and you Redux have touched the motherlode with a golden knife...
"As the US made its case for what was to become a misguided and tragic war the very icon that might have given the UN members and the American public pause in their deliberation was banished from view. A tapestry copy of Picasso’s Guernica, hanging outside the entrance to the Security Council, was draped." ~ Rabbit Redux Cowboy Earth
Mad Cowboy Redux
http://47roswell.blogspot.com/2007/07/guernica-redux.html
Guernica Redux
http://cowboy47.livejournal.com/3664.html
Pablo Picasso 20th century painter and founder of cubism
http://emptyeasel.com/2007/06/19/pablo-picasso-20th-century-painter-and-founder-of-cubism/
Well, we've got the ceilings, now we just need the floor tiles...
Casa de Juntas de Guernica
This, it seems to me, is in direct conflict with what we are as artists...
“Becoming self-reliant means that we must relinquish our ego and self-pride. Ego confines us by elaborating set ideas of who we think ourselves to be.” Secrets of the Golden Spiral pg 511
There is simple sweet life and then there is struggle and growth. How can we be both and still feel whole? I for one am torn by this.
Pablo Picasso Was Never Called Asshole
Pablo Picasso as himself
source: http://time-blog.com/looking_around/2007/07/
Who Is Pablo Picasso?
http://emptyeasel.com/2007/06/19/pablo-picasso-20th-century-painter-and-founder-of-cubism/
.