01 Mural, The art of War, Picasso Massacre in Korea, with footnotes

Pablo Picasso

Massacre in Korea. Valauri, 18th January 1951

Oil on plywood

110 x 210 cm

Museu Picasso de Barcelona

In the middle of a desolate landscape, with the ruins of destroyed buildings in the background, the drama of war against the civilian population: six soldiers are about to shoot a group of women and children. The military is portrayed as heartless robots, half-dressed with pieces of metal and helmets, while the innocent victims, naked, devoid of any dignity, desperately awaiting the fatal moment. Only a very small boy, who is unaware of the danger of what is happening, is playing in a carefree way on the ground. One of the women - the one on the far right - is in shock and it seems as though she still doesn't believe what is happening; another seems resigned and closes her eyes waiting for the shots; and the other two - one pregnant with the eldest son holding on tight to her and crying, and the other one with her little baby against her breast - are terrified. More on this painting

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. More on Pablo Picasso

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