A small Basque village immortalized in art in 1937
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ART FOR A CHANGE - Guernica  Apr 25, 2016 ... Picasso agreed to paint a mural for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 ... On April 26, 1937, Nazi war planes obliterated the little Basque village in ... that transcends the barbarity suffered by a small Basque village in 1937.
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Guernica - bombing of Guernica - PBS  town of Guernica ... when the church bells of Santa Maria sounded the alarm that afternoon in 1937. People from the surrounding hillsides crowded the town square. ... on the presumed target, nor on the railway station, nor on the small-arms factory nearby. ... Guernica is the cultural capital of the Basque people, seat of their...
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Guernica (Picasso) - Wikipedia  Guernica is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in ... The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country ... In January 1937, the Spanish Republican government commissioned ... Guernica is a town in the province of Biscay in Basque Country.
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Gernika - The Immortal Town - Cycle Fiesta  Gernika is a small town in the Basque region of Spain. It was immortalised by Picasso in a painting depicting the horrors that the town experienced in the ... The bombing of Gernika occured on April 26th 1937, which was a monday, traditionally...
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The Bombing of Guernica, 1937 - EyeWitness to History  An eyewitness account of an air raid on a Spanish town that has come to symbolize the ... and the tragedy immortalized by Pablo Picasso in his painting Guernica. ... of the Basque people, and, just outside the town, a small munitions factory.
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Read: Post Impressionism-I'm seeing dots!: Sample Course - Canvas  Cezanne was a leading painter in France during the late nineteenth century. ... Since he was only 32 when he died he had only a short time to experiment with his ... and most well know work is Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. ... Instead of strokes Seurat painted tiny dots about the size of a pencils eraser.
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Picasso, Guernica | Cubism and its impact | Early abstraction ...  In 1936, Picasso (who was Spanish) was asked by the newly elected Spanish ... Picasso's painting is based on the events of April 27, 1937, when Hitler's ... in support of Franco, bombed the village of Guernica in northern Spain, a city of no...
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PICASSO'S ANTIWAR 'GUERNICA' QUIETLY LEAVES US FOR SPAIN  Ending its refugee existence after years of dispute and agitation over its status, the ... Over the years there have been sporadic protests against the transfer to Spain of the painting, a political and ... Published: September 10, 1981 ... antiwar mural on loan to the Museum of Modern Art for 42 years, left New York for a final...
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The Frank Gehry Story | by Ingrid D. Rowland | The New York ...  Mar 24, 2016 ... The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by architect Frank Gehry. ... Museum in the heart of Basque country, in the declining port city of Bilbao. ... Gehry was best known for constructing cheap buildings of cheap ... to punctuate the cityscape of Los Angeles in the disco era, one of them his own...
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02-Guggenheim-Museum-Bilbao-Spain-1 | Frank Gehry, Museums ...  The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain: one of my favorite modern ... It is designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and built by Ferrovial. ... Sevilla, Spain, I was here when they were in the middle of making this, love it ...... and can be seen widely throughout popular culture. http://guggenheim.org/new-york...
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Little Ashes (2008) - Vernon Johns Society  the friendship of film director Luis Bunuel and the two artists Salvador Dali ... He immediately gets the attention of the other students because of his ... Later they heard that the Civil Guard (Guardia civil) had killed everyone in the village. ... At dinner Magdalena asks Lorca who are those men over there? .... Get out of Madrid.
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What is Casa Mil? | A Modernisme space | Gaud Barcelona  What is La Pedrera? ... Casa Mil, popularly known as La Pedrera, is probably one of the most famous buildings of the Catalan Modernisme or Catalan Art Nouveau period and one of the architect Antoni Gauds most ambitious works. ... Casa Mil, La Pedrera (1906 - 1912)
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Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Coosje Van Bruggen ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. This handsomely illustrated account ... recounts the execution of this ... This book celebrates the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and details its design process, bringing to life one of Gehry's greatest achievements. Coosje van Bruggen .... We have difficulty with the art of city building. We are finding...
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Bombing of Guernica - Wikipedia  The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government by its ... The bombing is the subject of a famous anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso. It was also depicted in a woodcut by the...
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Pablo Picasso (18811973). Guernica (1937). Oil on canvas, 350 ...  Picasso himself did not know what the work would turn out to be when he was ... on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it (1,2). ... the Nazi bombing and virtual obliteration of Guernica, an ancient Basque town in ... Started 6 days after the bombing and completed in 5 weeks, the monumental...
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May 2, The people of Madrid rise up in against French occupation ...  It is a companion to the painting The Third of May 1808 and is set in the ... del tres de mayo) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter .... Goya commemorated the uprising in his The Second of May, which depicts a ... On the right side stands the firing squad, engulfed in shadow and painted as a monolithic unit.
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Art & Architecture Tours - Tours d'Art  We travel by minicoach to Brussels and begin our two day tour of the Art ... Visit the Poas Volcano, hiking through cloud forest and dwarf trees to peer into the ..... of the Garfagnana, then move on to the Mediterranean coast for three nights, ..... Visit Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House, owned by the Currier Museum of Art...
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The Rise and Fall of ETA in the Basque Country | The Blue Review  Nov 12, 2013 ... ETA, post-Franco 7. The Dirty War 8. The new terrorism 9. Of Spain ... Reporting about the group has been a major part of Otamendi's career. ... His access to the organization came with a price. .... Basques, both urban and rural, that their identity and culture merited preservation through political autonomy.
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Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in Montjuc, Poble Sec ...  From across the city, the bombastic neobaroque silhouette of the Palau ... Top choice museum in Montjuc, Poble Sec & Sant Antoni ... In these halls you can see Catalan Gothic painting and works from other Spanish and Mediterranean regions. ... onslaught (nearby you'll find photos of soldiers and bombed-out city centres).
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His Most Famous Painting (I and the Village) - Marc Chagall  Jul 7, 2009 ... This oil on canvass painting, measuring 192.1 cm  151.4 cm (75 in  59 in), portrays the artist's memories of Hasidic Community, a native community present outside Vitebsk. This painting is inspired by Marc's Jewish life and his Russian ... Similarly, "I and the Village" is a scene of a particular area of the...
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Warsaw - Scribd  only is this a smashing piece of art nouveau Warsaw, but there's also a bit of ... Chodna - the splendid form of St. Carlo Borromeo Church. Designed by Henryk...