Monday, March 12, 2012

Picasso Exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario

          Join me next month as I visit the Picasso Exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada. Having seen some of Picasso's artwork at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, I look forward to seeing his work in my own backyard, so to speak.
          I will always remember Picasso's famous and awe-inspiring mural-size (11 ft by 25 ft) canvas, Guernica, depicted below. The painting, in black and white, is about the devastation of war and its impact on everyday people. Picasso painted this oil on canvas to bring attention to the German bombing of the town of Guernica in the Basque region, during the Spanish Civil War.



Guernica, c.1937 Art Print