Assess the ways in which any two artists have responded to conflict in the twentieth century
Pablo Picasso and Chris Offili have both respectively created artworks which display their reaction to conflict in the twentieth century. Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ of 1937 remains one of the most emotionally charged paintings that exists today portraying the atrocities of war in Spain, while Offili’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ painting 61 years later shows a reaction to a more contemporary event in which the theme of the painting - institutional racism - still widely exists today. Yet despite both artists painting in different generations, they both show the suffering, pain and criminal actions of man against man.
During the Spanish civil war between the Republic government and the facist General Franco’s forces, an event happened on April 27th 1937 in which - with no military gain but “is considered the rehearsal of total war strategy”- Franco’s ally, Hitler, had his Nazi bombers bomb the civilian Basque village of Guernica, killing or wounding 1600 people. When the news of this event reached Paris 4 days later it was a complete sensation. The …show more content…
This style of painting of a mural also makes it look like graffiti on a wall with the contemporary drawing of figures the sweeping, almost cartoon style of painting. The poet José Bergamín commented that “Guernica was not a picture but graffiti, though graffiti done by a
Pablo Picasso and Chris Offili have both respectively created artworks which display their reaction to conflict in the twentieth century. Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ of 1937 remains one of the most emotionally charged paintings that exists today portraying the atrocities of war in Spain, while Offili’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ painting 61 years later shows a reaction to a more contemporary event in which the theme of the painting - institutional racism - still widely exists today. Yet despite both artists painting in different generations, they both show the suffering, pain and criminal actions of man against man.
During the Spanish civil war between the Republic government and the facist General Franco’s forces, an event happened on April 27th 1937 in which - with no military gain but “is considered the rehearsal of total war strategy”- Franco’s ally, Hitler, had his Nazi bombers bomb the civilian Basque village of Guernica, killing or wounding 1600 people. When the news of this event reached Paris 4 days later it was a complete sensation. The …show more content…
This style of painting of a mural also makes it look like graffiti on a wall with the contemporary drawing of figures the sweeping, almost cartoon style of painting. The poet José Bergamín commented that “Guernica was not a picture but graffiti, though graffiti done by a