Picasso and War

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"This paper will be concerned with Pablo Picasso's reactions to war. During the First World War, Picasso did not directly address the theme of war in his paintings. Rather, the violence and brutality of the war were symbolized in his artistic style itself. After 1920, and particularly after the Second World War, the horrors of war were increasingly used as subject matter in Picasso's works. Some of Picasso's greatest works dating from the 1930s through the 1950s, such as Guernica (1937), Charnel House (1944), Massacre in Korea (1951), and the War panel in the Temple of Peace (1952), show the dehumanization process which occurs when innocent men, women and children are subjected to war. This paper will discuss these works, with the point of view that they adequately capture the essence of the tragedy of war.

By the time of the First World War, Picasso had made his ... "

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