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Picaso's Guernika

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Anemone del Camino

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An interesting article about Picaso's famous Guernika painting.

Also learned the the Mercury Fountain at the Miro Foundation Museum is by Calder, and not Miro as I thought, and that, like Guernika, it was a comission for the 1937 Expo.

If you walk the Norte, don't miss the Museum of Peace where a replica of Guernika is shown. Want to see the real thing? Head to the Reina Sofia from where, in order to protect it, it will never leave.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-guernica-picassos-influential-painting
 
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I believe there is currently a whole special Picaso exhibition on at the Reina Sofia at the moment? I might be wrong.
 
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In Guernica, there is a large outdoor replica of the painting in a park near the city centre-- worth a look, even
if it's not the original--- which if you can see at the Reina Sofia, is well worth the effort.
 

I think that the Mercury Fountain may be my favourite work of art. May.
 
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Sixwheeler said:
I think that the Mercury Fountain may be my favourite work of art. May.
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It's mesmerizing. I saw it in 1999, and I don't recall it being behind glass as it apparently now ease. The texture of mercury just makes me want to reach out and touch it.
 
In Woody Allen's 'Midnight In Paris' (not a great movie but I love it), Owen Wilson who is the Woody stand-in meets Hemingway and Hemingway introduces him (using very short sentences, of course) to Picasso saying something like: " ...this is Pablo. He's a painter. He's very good. He's no Miro, but he's very good." I loved The Miro Foundation. Miro's work is unique and childlike, so intelligent, elegant. What is it about those Catalonians? I agree with Woody's Hemingway on that one - his Picasso in that movie is a nervous little guy with a horrible comb-over. I don't think Allen likes Picasso so much.

But The Guernica. Wow! I saw it in New York in 1962. My art school piled onto a bus from Montreal to see all the art we could cram into 2 days. I saw The Guernica then and again last year in Madrid. It's one of humanity's incandescent cultural triumphs IMO.
 
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Anemone del Camino said:
It's mesmerizing. I saw it in 1999, and I don't recall it being behind glass as it apparently now ease. The texture of mercury just makes me want to reach out and touch it.
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It's all glassed in (when we were there in 2012) I suppose because mercury is so poisonous. That fountain would fascinate children, I expect. A pity it's so confined in such limited space. I saw it through a window from an upper floor, don't know if it's viewable from a lower level, forgot to check that out.
 
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There was a Picaso exhibit in Montreal some 25-30 years ago, when I was in uni, or just before, and one of the works shown was from the blue period and called something the lines of "Woman ironing". I have serached for images of it ever since and have never been able to find one. It is that painting who taught me that visiting museums, galleries, etc. can be like a treasure hunt for pieces that speak to your heart. There is a Goya on the main floor of the Prado where all I wanted to do was sit in front it (post Camimo legs in pain) and take it all in. Magical moments.
 
oursonpolaire said:
In Guernica, there is a large outdoor replica of the painting in a park near the city centre-- worth a look, even
if it's not the original--- which if you can see at the Reina Sofia, is well worth the effort.
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It is also found in a garden of art in Agés on the Camino Francés.
 
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For hundreds of years, I suppose the only pictures people saw were stained glass windows and paintings. The windows must have been electrifying.

Goya is one of my heroes. In today's world he would be a heroic war photographer/documentary maker/activist-artist like Ai Weiwei. He would invent some enormous, magical category that only a giant could live in, as he did in his own day. Sui generis.
 
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johnpb said:
I believe there is currently a whole special Picaso exhibition on at the Reina Sofia at the moment? I might be wrong.
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Yes there was when I was in Madrid in June. Called something like Picasso's road to Guernica. It was very interesting.
 
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