Nowadays art is different from the art that was created in the past, when everything had to be aesthetic and simply beautiful. Now artists rather try to shock us by their works. So no, art does"t have to be beautiful, but it shouldn't be ugly either. I think that when a work of art is intryguing it just doesn't matter if it's ugly or beautiful because we don't think about it that way. But it's just my opinion, maybe for lots of people it is important.
GUERNICA As a conclusion of the topic about Picasso I decided to write about Guernica. It's a painting which Pablo painted in 1937 and now it's known at the global scale. It's probably one of the most famous paintings of Picasso. It is 349 cm high and 776 cm wide, so it's more like a mural painting but it's not on the wall but on a huge canvas. The whole process of creating was documented by a photographer who he dated then, Dora Maar. It can be know admired in the National Museum of Art in Madrid with her photos. The history of the masterpiece refers to the bomb that was dropped at a village in the North of Spain, Guernica. It caused a lot of damage including killing many civils. This was actually the first time when the artist painted something as a reaction to a political problem. Guernica shows the tragedy of war and suffering of the innocent. We can see there,...
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