Through Spanish Eyes

War is a particularly noxious human activity.  This week we view it through the eyes of three Spanish artists, one horrified by the human misery born of the conflicts in the time of Napoleon and two who saw the horrors of the Spanish Civil War in the years prior to World War II…

 

Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War, Plate 25, circa 1811

Pablo Picasso: Guernica, 1936

Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonitions of
Civil War), 1936

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CREDITS

Note: Information for this essay is taken primarily from readily available sources such as Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia, and almanacs.  When other sources are employed they are credited either in the text or as follows:  None. All photographs are taken from Wikipedia or Google Images without source or authorship credits available, except as noted: None.