ART FROM THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

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Paintings On Line

Kars; Execution of a priest

Self Portrait of a Loyalist soldier

Champs de Battaile

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Picasso Links

Guernica 1937

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Joan Miro Links

Fun Angles

Aidez

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Dali Links

Surrealist, monarchist, theorist of paranoia,born again Catholic,who was banished from the Surrealist movement in the 1930's. Andre Breton called him 'Avida Dollars' for his turn towards commercialism.
Omega's Salvador Dali Web Page

Salvador Dali Web Museum in Florida

Mirror Site to the Dali Paris Archive

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Emanuel Hochberg

Emanuel Hochberg
October 7, 1908 - April 28, 1998
Contemporary Artist, Poet and Spanish Civil War Veteran
Emanuel Hochberg, beloved family member, Spanish Civil War veteran (VALB), World War II veteran and fighter of the good fight all his life, died April 28th at age 89.
May He Rest in Peace.

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Robert Motherwell

ELEGY TO THE SPANISH REPUBLIC
ROBERT MOTHERWELL

Motherwell and Mattise prints

Robert Motherwell Bio

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Other Artists


Frederico Garcia Lorca

They Still Draw Pictures
A collection of over 600 drawings made during the Spanish Civil War by Spanish school children, both in Spain and in refugee centers in France, rendered in pencil, crayon, ink, and watercolor. The drawings were collected under the auspices of the Spanish Board of Education and the Carnegie Institute of Spain, and some of them were published for the American Friends Service Committee to raise funds for children’s relief efforts in Spain.

Vlady Painter of Paradoxes (Victor Serge's son)
Born in Petrograd during the civil war. His father, Victor Serge, wrote, "I spent nights at the defence outposts, with the communists. My pregnant wife came to sleep in back, in an ambulance. Wrapped in a towel were a few clothes and our most precious objects, so that we could meet during the battle and beat a retreat together along the Neva" (Mémoire d'un révolutionnaire, Seuil, 1951, p. 103; translation).

prax~sfour February
A Journal of Radical Perspectives on the Arts

Pierre Daura - His Life and Paintings
In 1937, at the age of 41, Daura joined the Spanish Republican army as a volunteer to fight against the forces of Franco during the Spanish Civil War. He served as a forward artillery observer, was badly wounded in the battle of Teruel, and sent home to France to convalesce.

The Measure of All Things: Paintings by Irving Norman
Essay on Irving Norman painter, social activist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War, from the DeYoung Museum show of Normans work.

Spanish Civil War: Actions and Art
On line course dealing with how artists responded to the Spanish Civil War

Art History Quiz on Spanish Painters and the Spanish Civil War.
Carol Suttons Art History Quiz Page. Questions that change Monthly.
This is Quiz 5 on Art and War.
For Fun take this little quiz with pop-up pull down menu's and multiple choice answers.
Carol is another Canadian with a great web page.

Is the Spanish Civil War Art
An interesting student essay on art, history and science.

Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam. Born Sagua la Grande, Cuba, 1902. Died Paris, 1982.
A contemporary of Piccaso, Prevert, and influenced by both the surrealists in France and his Afro-Cuban heritage. Fought with the Republicans before exile to Paris.

The Art of Fritz Brandies
Canadian Artist and Veteran of the Spanish Civil War

Buried Mirror
The Buried Mirror/El espejo enterrado is a video essay written and narrated by the Mexican writer and social commentator Carlos Fuentes. The series of five video programs tells the story of Spanish and Latin American civilizations from the beginnings of history to the present time. The video series was funded by the Quinto Centenario of Spain and the Smithsonian Institution. It was first broadcast on the Discovery Channel in the Spring of 1992.
In the winter of 1992 Project FLAME put together a small interactive multimedia application based on part of Carlos Fuentes' narrative which covered the Spanish Civil War.

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Photography Links

Spanish Photo Exhibit 98
Man Ray, Ortega y Gasset, Picasso. etc.

Photos from the Spanish Civil War
World History Prints and Photos from the Library of Congress

Images from the Spanish Civil War GIFS & JPGS
From the Illustrated London News, 1939-45

Spanish Civil War collection University of Wales
Swansea Library,South Wales Coalfield collection.
Memories of Mineworkers, with bios and pictures of those who fought in Spain.
Index of photos in the collection

Pictures from the Spanish Civil War
Basque photo collection from the Euskal Herria Journal, of the Basque Nationalist Congress For Peace(ETA)

Robert Capa Photos
Review of book of Capa photos from the Spanish Civil War. The most famous being the dying soldier.

BURN Archive
photos of the Spanish Civil War

Advertisement for Book of Catalan Photos
Includes some from the Spanish Civil War

Notre Dame Archives of Rev. John A. O'Brien
Index of Photographs (GOBR)

Spanish Civil War images GIFs & JPEGs

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