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

[Rebekah]

I don't mean what genre of art. I mean in the context of
landscape/portrait/still life/abstract etc...

Cheers

rebeKah

Tom Coady wrote:

> 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