Picasso's Political Thought and Gestures
by Bernadette Caille
Summary
- >> Political views and anti-academism of Cubist Art
- >> The hidden war in Painting
- >> "Dreams and lies of Franco" then "Guernica" in 1937, cries and politics
- >> Overcome the inevitable and see what contemporaries are afraid to face.
- >> "Memory, memory": the author is not who we think !
- >> With Communist Party, “I am again among my brothers…”
- >> Painting peace, in the midst of armed conflict
- >> The "Portrait of Stalin", a condemnation of "his" family
- >> The friend Maurice Thorez and some cases of conscience
Picasso's relationship to politics has usually been analyzed in terms of his most spectacular undertakings: his "political" works from 1937—especially, Guernica—and his affiliation to the French Communist Party from 1944 onward.
Much though these two episodes are landmarks within the artist's personal and artistic career, they can overshadow its overall development.