Allegories of Blood: Comparing Picasso's Guernica to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa
Title: Allegories of Blood: Comparing Picasso's Guernica to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 2748 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Allegories of Blood: Comparing Picasso's Guernica to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 2748 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
For centuries artists have moved audiences through the use of pictures. As time progressed those images became more and more demanding of the viewer until they were meant to invoke a physical response. Perhaps the earliest account of such emotionally exact artwork is the 1818 piece, Raft of the Medusa, by Gericault. As time progressed people became more politically aware and involved and generations of art portray this. Picasso's Guernica, created in 1937, is a great example
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