To create is to resist
Verane Tasseau
Summary
- >> "No, painting isn't made for decorating apartments. It's an offensive and defensive instrument of war against the enemy."
- >> In " Guernica, (…) I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death."
- >> Still lifes and bust of a Minotaur, the artist’s metamorphosis.
- >> It symbolizes both strength and impotence; Minautor, the artist’s alter ego, is a tough fighter, yet remains a sacrificial victim.
- >> When " to create is to resist"
- >> Classical art to express war
- >> Woman in a Grey Dress, an emblem of the war years with its strength and provocation.
On June 6, Sotheby's Paris sold two works by Picasso from the collection of the painter's granddaughter, Marina Picasso. These two paintings, which originally belonged to the Pablo Picasso estate, had not left the painter's studio up until his death in 1973. We have chosen to tell the stories of these two works in one article, as both bear witness to Picasso's political and humanistic concerns right before the war and during the Occupation.