WEEPING WOMAN

  • Hilary Miceli

Reborn, My first love. Everything started from this painting, I was 11 years old the first time that I saw it, and since that moment I knew art was always going to be a part of my life. Weeping woman è stato il mio Primo amore. Tutto parte da questo dipinto, avevo 11 anni la prima volta che lo vidi e da li capii che l'arte avrebbe fatto parte della mia vita.

Weeping Woman - Picasso. On 26 April 1937, the air force of Nazi Germany bombed the Basque town of Guernica. The attack was carried out in support of General Franco’s Nationalist forces. It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. Picasso responded to the massacre by painting the large anti-war mural Guernica. He also made a number of additional paintings of a figure from the mural, a woman holding her dead child. Weeping Woman is the last of this series. The figure is based on artist and photographer Dora Maar, who documented the making of Guernica.