Great Art Explained - Season 1 Episode 2 Picasso’s Guernica
Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal symbol of freedom from ALL wars. Picasso said, “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth”, and like so much of Picasso’s work it can be difficult to decipher the ‘truth’ in the political, artistic and religious symbolism. James Payne looks at some of the more acknowledged interpretations along with techniques, composition and artistic inspiration. Guernica is a masterpiece that always leaves the viewer with more than they brought to it, and here, Great Art Explained, traces the work from its underwhelming reception when first seen in 1937, through to its status over eighty years later as one of the most influential and iconic works of all time.
First Air Date: May 29, 2020
Last Air date: Apr 26, 2024
Season: 5 Season
Episode: 39 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Popularity: 5.125
Language: English
Episode
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)
Picasso’s Guernica
Michelangelo's David
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
Artemisia Gentileschi
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
Monet's Water Lilies
Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals
The Thinker by Rodin
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