Name: Picasso’s Guernica
Released: 2020-06-26

Great Art Explained

S1 · E2 — Picasso’s Guernica

S1:E2 · Picasso’s Guernica

Episodes

11 episodes in this season

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)

13 min

Now Playing

Picasso’s Guernica

Michelangelo's David

15 min

The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault

15 min

Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"

15 min

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck

15 min

Artemisia Gentileschi

15 min

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

15 min

Monet's Water Lilies

15 min

E10

Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals

15 min

E11

The Thinker by Rodin

15 min

Great Art Explained

TV Series

2020

Documentary

Now playing

Picasso’s Guernica

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Jun 26, 2020

Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal symbol of freedom from ALL wars. Picasso said, “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth”, and like so much of Picasso’s work it can be difficult to decipher the ‘truth’ in the political, artistic and religious symbolism. James Payne looks at some of the more acknowledged interpretations along with techniques, composition and artistic inspiration. Guernica is a masterpiece that always leaves the viewer with more than they brought to it, and here, Great Art Explained, traces the work from its underwhelming reception when first seen in 1937, through to its status over eighty years later as one of the most influential and iconic works of all time.

More details

Great Art Explained

TV Series

2020

Documentary

Now playing

Picasso’s Guernica

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Jun 26, 2020

More details