The Dream and lie of Franco

Pablo Picasso

1937

Picasso • Spanish / Living in Paris • First truly political work • Outbreak of Civil War • Bombing of Guernica • postcards to raise funds for Spanish

Republican Government • sold at the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937

World’s Fair • Last four pictures became studies for a mural

he painted for the World’s Fair

Francisco Franco • Spanish Dictator • Fascist • Claimed to defend and

represent Spanish Culture and Values

• Bombing of Guernica • Allowed Adolf Hitler to test

out “Saturation Bombing” strategy

• 3 hours / mostly women, children, elderly

• Happened on market day

• Prints of 18 images

• Prose Poem • First 14 etchings

include aquatint (Jan 8 1937)

• Last 4 added without aquatint after the Bombing of Guernica

• (June 7 1937)

Franco riding a horse waving a sward and flag

Franco with a ridiculously large penis, waiving a sword and flag

Franco attacking a classical

sculpture with a pick

Franco dressed as a courtesan

with a flower and a fan

Franco being gored by a bull

Franco at prayer surrounded by

barbed wire

Franco on top of a dead creature

Franco chasing a winged horse

Franco riding on a pig carrying a

spear

Franco Eating a Dead Horse

The aftermath of a battle / with a

corpse

The aftermath of a battle / with a

dead horse

Franco and a Bull

(bull symbolizing Spain)

Franco and a Bull Fighting

A woman crying & reaching up

Bombing of Guernica / without

aquatint

A woman fleeing a burning house

with child

A woman cradling a child

A woman shot with an arrow

and reaching up amid devastation

... "cries of children, cries of women, cries of birds, cries of flowers, cries of timbers, and of stones, cries of bricks, cries of furniture, of beds, of chairs, of curtains, of pots, of cats, and of papers, cries of odors which claw at one another, cries of smoke pricking the shoulder of the cries which stew in the cauldron and of the rain of birds which inundates the sea which gnaws the bone and breaks its teeth biting the cotton wool which the sun mops up from the plate which the purse and the pocket hide in the print which the foot leaves in the rock." - Picasso

Guernica - 1937 Worlds Fair