Picassos Guerminca and Beckmanns Departure

From 1932 to 1933, when Nazism rose in power, Max Beckmann secretly produced the large triptych, Departure. This painting was started in Frankfurt and then completed in Berlin. Beckmann’s painting reflects his spiritual role as an artist unconcerned with public events. He asserted that Departure is not a reaction against Nazism, but a reflection of life as suffering. It displays the tormenting reality of life, and humans which is an spiration for spiritual freedom. Still, the fact that the triptych is painted in a period of political upheaval means that it is inspired by political events.

Pablo Picasso, in 1937, produced preliminary sketches and THE DREAM AND LIE OF FRANCO before completing GUERNICA, which is a strong pers

In GUERNICA, the female figure holding the lamp emerges from a window. Her arm, the curves of her elongated neck and her gaze, lead the viewer to the wailing mother holding her dead infant on the left.

The images in GUERNICA are overlapped in such a way that logical perspective is abandoned. The subjects in DEPARTURE do not overlap in the way of Picasso. Some subjects like the still life of fruits are, however, illogically sized.

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