毕加索(Pablo Ruiz Picasso)的名画：格尔尼卡(Guernica) Guernica: Testimony of War It is modern art's most powerful antiwar statement... created by the twentieth century's most well-known and least understood artist. But the mural called Guernica is not at all what Pablo Picasso has in mind when he agrees to paint the centerpiece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair. For three months, Picasso has been searching for inspiration for the mural, but the artist is in a sullen mood, frustrated by a decade of turmoil in his personal life and dissatisfaction with his work. The politics of his native homeland are also troubling him, as a brutal civil war ravages Spain. Republican forces, loyal to the newly elected government, are under attack from a fascist coup led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Franco promises prosperity and stability to the people of Spain. Yet he delivers only death and destruction. Hoping for a bold visual protest to Franco's treachery from Spain's most eminent artist, colleagues and representatives of the democratic government have come to Picasso's home in Paris to ask him to paint the mural. Though his sympathies clearly lie with the new Republic, Picasso generally avoids politics - and disdains overtly political art. The official theme of the Paris Exposition is a celebration of modern technology. Organizers hope this vision of a bright future will jolt the nations out of the economic depression and social unrest of the thirties.Asplans unfold, much excitement is generated by the Aeronautics Pavilion, featuring the latest advances in aircraft design and engineering. Who would suspect that this dramatic progress would bring about such dire consequences? On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by Hitler's burgeoning war machine, the hamlet is pounded with high-explosive and incendiary bombs for over three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they run from the crumbling buildings. Guernica burns for three days. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed or wounded. 油画《格尔尼卡》，是立体主义的领导人毕加索作于20世纪30年代的一件具有重大影响及历史意义的杰作。此画是受西班牙共和国政府的委托，为1937年在巴黎举行的国际博览会西班牙馆而创作，是表现战争题材且具有纪念意义的作品。画中表现的是1937年纳粹德国空军疯狂轰炸西班牙小城格尔尼卡的暴行。作为一个具有强烈正义感的艺术家，毕加索对于这一野蛮行径表现出无比的愤慨。他仅用了几个星期便完成这幅巨作，作为对法西斯兽行的谴责和抗议。毕加索他那潜在的变现主义再次迸发出来，线条扭曲着，膨胀着，激情在奔腾驰骋，这便是《格尔尼卡》。 http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/gmain.html http://www.yibei.com/krecord/4dddb9627e021e5b5120d255
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