Research 1: Bulleting an initial plan

Research 1: Bulleting an initial plan

Group 13 | Picassos Guernica (1937) | Time Machine

The international handbook on innovation

(Book)

By Larisa V. Shavinina

Chapter 13

(pp.222)

•Guernica; the process of creation.

·         "Information concerning structure in Picasso's thought processes".

(pp.227)

•"When Picasso painted Guernica, he was in his mid-50's and had been an artist for most of that time." Maybe look at some of his life experience, wisdom of his perceptivity which can be associated to bring/support findings on the internal symbology of Guernica.  

(pp.230)

•"Furthermore, the strong correspondence between Minotauromachy and Guernica shown in Table 5 is actually an underestimation of the true correspondence."

(pp.231)

•There is a link between Minotauromachy and Guernica

·         Linked by a web of interrelationships (complex network of illustrative meanings/symbolic)

•Guernica also contains the skeleton of a bullfight

•Guernica is the development of individual characters.

·         This illustrates a possible waypoint; in as much that we can begin to understand Picasso's thoughts and feeling.

Summary: Information connects/points to Picasso's earlier piece, Minotauromachy (1935).

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LIFE - Picasso

(Magazine)

Picasso: his women: the wonder is that he found so much time to paint

(pp.92)

•Caption under the Minotauromachy image print: "Picasso's 1935 etching "Minotauromachy" anticipates the Guernica composition, but in reverse."

(pp.93)

•"Of all animals, bulls are the richest in mythical associations. In the Mediterranean imagination, which Picasso shares through heritage and blood, bulls figures both as gods and monsters, heroes and villians, saviors and victims."

·         Ancient Greek God: "Zeus himself took the shape of a noble bull to carry off Europa."  

•"No question in Guernica has been argued so headedly as the meaning of the bull, and the debate is still going on."

·         A friend a of Picasso, a critic: "Threatening bull, hence the fascist cause."

·         Countered: "Picasso himself is on record as stating, years ago, that the bull is not fascism; "brutality and darkness, yes, but not fascism."

·         Continued: "Yet his preliminary sketches show that he wavered between an evil bull and a noble one."

Fig 1. Picasso's Minotauromachy (1935).

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List of Illustrations

Figure 1. Picasso, Pablo. (1935) Minotauromachy. [Etching] At: http://www.aestheticrealism.org/News-ck.jpg (Accessed on: 23.02.11)

Bibliography

Shavinina, V., L. (2003) The international handbook on innovation. (1st ed.) Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.