Cinders wind scattered
weeping woman wails for child
lost in the rubble
We went to an evening private view of the Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition at Tate Britain. There was a lot to take in, very interesting how Picasso influenced and overlapped with so many British artists. The piece of art that I’ve focused on however is called Dream and Lie of Franco (1937), it’s a print which he produced to make money for the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War. Franco himself is depicted as an inhuman beast, a monster terrorising the innocent populace. The weeping woman theme was something Picasso kept visiting during this tragic period in Spanish history. It seems so sad in this work.
(image from metropolitan museum of art website)
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