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...building’s inauguration. As a piece of architecture, it was a mild success. At the end of the Exposition, Sert’s design would largely go forgotten, its fame overshadowed by the mural it housed—Picasso’s famous “Guernica...
From the Trojan siege that spawned Homer's Iliad to the Luftwaffe bombing that inspired Picasso's Guernica, war has long served as a midwife for art. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the ensuing horror found expression in the most traditional Afghan art form?the Oriental rug. Two Afghan tribal groups, the Chahar Aimaq and the Baloch, expanded their color palette and changed their subject matter to reflect the jarring reality that their homeland had become a battlefield. Over the next decade, they produced carpets featuring rocket launchers, machine guns, bombs, and helicopter gunships. In lesser numbers...
...more than ever, we need art to express our hopes and fears. In the months and years ahead, can we expect a Guernica, the masterpiece Picasso painted after an air attack killed 1,600 people during the Spanish Civil War? Will a movement rise from these horrors, as Modernism arose after World War I? With artists like the ones on the following pages, anything is possible...
...Conflict may make some entertainment superfluous, but it also helps make some great art possible, from Bob Marley?s anthemic song ?War? to Kurt Vonnegut?s novel ?Slaughterhouse Five? to Picasso?s masterpiece ?Guernica.? Many mere entertainers - the teen pop idols, the nihilistic gangsta rappers, the amoral hard rockers - will no doubt have to (at least temporarily) rethink their relevance in the light of recent events. Do we need to hear DMX?s violent boasts when there?s so much violence on TV? Is there any point in enduring Slipknot?s horror metal assault when real life is already dealing...
...Heavy Liquid" may not be a deep read, but it has a lot of entertainment value. Paul Pope has a unique imagination and the talent to realize it. The story feels familiar while the details - a killer with the mask of the horse in Picasso's "Guernica," the hunt for an artist rather than a killer, and absurd stick-figure robots -feel fresh. This combination of new and old basically defines a superior work of genre fiction...