Sydney Ideas

Pablo Picasso painted his large scale Guernica (1937) in response to the bombing of the Spanish town by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War. Art historian T J Clark discussed Guernica, examining how a work of such enduring political resonance emerged. He looked at the step-by-step creation of Guernica, taking advantage of the set of photographs of the work in progress taken by Dora Maar. For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2011/professor_t_j_clark.shtml