[BNM] [OT] Anyone here know about art history?

[Tom Coady]

On 10/23/07, Rebekah <rebekah at pinnacle.net.uk> wrote:
> What genre would you call Picasso's Guernica ?

Post-synthetic cubist neo-Classic surrealism.

In the period following the upheaval of World War I Picasso produced
work in a neoclassical style. This "return to order" is evident in the
work of many European artists in the 1920s, including Derain, Giorgio
de Chirico, and the artists of the New Objectivity movement. Picasso's
paintings and drawings from this period frequently recall the work of
Ingres.

During the 1930s, the minotaur replaced the harlequin as a motif which
he used often in his work. His use of the minotaur came partly from
his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol,
and appears in Picasso's Guernica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso#Classicism_and_surrealism