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La alegoría de la ii República Española en el Guernica de Picasso

Néstor Morente Y Martín

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allegorylcsh:Fine Artspicassospanish republicinternational expositionlcsh:Nguernica

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In 1937, Pablo Picasso was chosen by the Republican Gov-ernment to be the artistic representative in the Spanish pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris. The subject of the work was to be a denunciation of the Spanish Civil War. Picasso took his inspiration from the Guernica Tragedy, and the result was what is undoubtedly one of the most universally renowned paintings of the 20th century. As the artist never offered an interpretation of the painting, historians have since made an enormous variety of hypotheses. One of them suggests that the female figure carrying an oil lamp is the personification of the Republic.

10.6035/potestas.2018.13.5http://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/potestas/article/view/2566/2976