Picasso's famous painting Guernica and the art of the metacosm
Background painting of the spouses of NATO summit leaders
Wen, Cao Xi Frog
This year's NATO summit was held in Spain, from the media reports to see history will prove that this is a failed summit, this article does not talk about the content of this summit, nor about the tidbits of this summit, as a world climb, NATO summit leaders spouse group photo of the background painting of the photo is a little less topic, that painting "Guernica" from the master Picasso, Picasso is also a world artist who makes spaniards proud.
"Guernica" is set against the backdrop of a war disaster that occurred on April 26, 1937: on this day, the German army bombed the small town of Guernica in northern Spain for more than three hours, making Guernica flattened, which will certainly evoke many superimposed and complex thoughts about history, reality and the future, which is the greatness and charm of the work of art, and also the cultural bond that the artist is inseparable from the times. Abstract works also breathe the air, water, ideas and pigments of his time, even if the current self-media and metaverse are only more free breathing.
Group photo of the spouses of nato summit leaders (one of the self-media versions)
"Guernica" has its unique charm, this Cubist art from the artist who created it, but also from its unique modern cultural background, Picasso is a master of Cubist art, deeply influenced by the culture of modernism, in his art to express these to the fullest, and even if the expression of sadness is so atmospheric. In "Guernica" there are multiple levels of prophecy, he he wants to show all the objects and images he wants to break, accurately decompose, and then re-do them into a reconstruction of Cubist art, consistent with the science and technology, philosophical speculation, social development, religious beliefs of that era, indicating a new world of humanity after World War II globalization, liberalization, and peace, utopia, neoliberalism, socialism are almost at peace, and now look back on those years that were really the new golden time of mankind, especially in the Sino-US trade war. The new crown epidemic has mutated repeatedly, the Russo-Ukrainian war has broken out, and mankind has begun to look back at that era, can we go back to that era? I am afraid that the future of mankind is mostly pessimistic, and in the next short term, such as ten years or eight years, it may be difficult to go back, and the quasi-globalization, post-Cold War era, and the disintegrating society with chaotic values have begun.
Of course, mankind is still hopeful, after all, human beings in the twentieth century, the beginning of the new golden age still has a splendid cultural heritage, if human beings can reflect and be good at using these heritage, in the twenty-first century human beings can still create a contribution worthy of the times, although in a relatively fragile human community in various regions, to find a relatively harmonious, relatively free, progressive, cooperative new silver age, the culture and art of each region in our new era need to express and create a meta-universe that is compatible with it Maybe the real world is still divided, but there is a more attractive metaverse that integrates and balances with each other, and it is not impossible to go from being at peace, competing with each other, and attracting each other to the final human community, one world is not good, and two worlds are good.
Picasso, oil painting, Guernica, 7.76mX3.49m, National Gallery of Princess Sofia, Madrid
Returning to the painting "Guernica", it shows the fierceness of the bombing, but it is not a separate expression of pain, but to give people hope, but also the bravery of the horse, the frustration of hope and the cow, the expression of reflection, and also predicts the possible disintegration of the future world. A painting is visual, expressed through visual symbols, symbols can have multiple points, there are beautiful points, there are also anxious points, the same painting some people see depression, some people see pleasure. For example, the spouses of the leaders of this NATO summit chose to take "Guernica" as the background for the group photo, and these flowery and straight-dressed leaders' wives and gentlemen almost all expressed their satisfaction with the host country's hospitality, at least on the surface, each of them was very satisfied with this Spanish trip or the Spanish crew. The painting "Guernica" is only a small theater at this NATO summit, and a good play has been staged, but I am afraid that there will be more plays in the future.
"Guernica" is just the bombing of more than three hours under Picasso's brush, just think, if those three hours happened today, there are many different mobile phones to shoot from different angles, and there must be different testimonies in the video library, and even real experiences and feelings. NATO summit leaders spouse group photo, there must be more than one photographer, staff, there must be a lot of cameras, mobile phones have been taken, there must be different versions, this different version has different statements, coupled with different media, writers, editors of the subjective trade-offs, there must be different desired effects, unlike "Guernica" only one version of Picasso.
Artist Picasso
Of course, in the metaverse environment, it is possible to make a metaverse version of the living Guernica, and even the copyright can still be Picasso's, nothing is impossible, as long as Picasso's descendants authorize. In fact, there is nothing new in the metaverse, such as the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield of drones, star chains, precision guidance, etc. have long been blooming everywhere, and the actual combat on these battlefields has long exceeded the electronic wear of virtual games, but the general public has not really felt it, it does not matter that this is just a delay in conduction, just like the saying said, let the bullets fly slowly and then for a while. Just like the short video of the Internet, at the beginning everyone is not used to it, or is still limited by traffic, this is not everyone this year to feel the power of short video transmission, from the beginning of the year of the chain woman, to the current Tangshan barbecue shop beating incident, etc., are short video self-media caused by social movements, in fact, those things have long existed, why only now outbreak, are because of the popularity of short video self-media, although before this The Internet self-media has long existed, but limited by traffic, and now 5G mobile phones are popular, Anyone can shoot videos and send videos, from text, pictures to videos is a leap.
Art focuses on originality, especially in the meta-universe era, especially in the direction of innovation in the direction of complex integration, such as virtual and realistic new art. In fact, even fresh words and concepts are inseparable from basic things, such as air, water, land, food, high-rise buildings, spaceships, exploration of alien planets, etc., just like painting is the foundation of art, and then dazzling contemporary art is still inseparable from basic skills and hand kung fu, new concepts plus fresh materials, crafts, machines, computers, big data, but they are inseparable from basic interests, professional training, Picasso to live with his spirit of exploration of new art He is certainly still the master of this era.
July 3, 2022 at the Moon Palace in Beijing
Liu Zhifeng Oil painting city
Attach:
After the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, I wrote a poem "The New Coronavirus and Drones", but I have not published it, and I will disclose it here through the small theater of "Guernica" at the NATO summit. In this poem, Picasso's monumental painting Guernica is just a wall, and what would the former Communist Party think if he were alive. - Author's inscription
Coronavirus and drones
——Notes from spring 2022
Poetry Cao Xi Frog
1
Ben is humane
A disease of doctrine
Now it is
21st century summit
Small print
New coronary pneumonia
Inconspicuous
Small viruses
Birthday ladder
A proposal
To get the cake
Cut into 7.6 billion servings
Presidential palace
Cat party
Attract luxury
Dozens of tickets
2
Mars rover
Distant over there
Solar System Conference
Pluto descended to the throne
Old space station
die in one's bed
Starry Sky Classroom
Classes have already started
The Sun family
Eight planets
It has already been replaced
Nine planets
The pianist's home
Fall into the shade
Heaven forbid this
The War of the Wheat Fields
3
President of the United States
Sleepless nights
Regardless of the Oscars
with inflation
But to Europe
NATO conference address
It seems that it can really be deprived
Who's the president
Kiev, Ukraine
A few scarecrows
Remote control small plane
Coax away the war crows
Dollar ruble war
European energy prices are rising
Udong beauty with dagger
Dashing shoulder-to-shoulder mango missiles
4
Millions
War refugees
Left home
Influx to foreign countries
United Nations
Civilized order
Was the weather in February
Forecasters scrambled
Online old driver
Driving his car
Send away the theater
Last guest
Chinese queued
Stick to doing nucleic acids
RMB calmly and calmly
Harmony of the world
5
Ukraine certainly
To fight to the end
Ukrainians are
An iron tree that blooms
Spain is in the making
NATO Summit
Lord Biden
Fiddling with the pieces in his hand
Picasso
That Communist
Guard only one wall
There are several auctioneers
Legend of the Soviet Union
Not so immortal
Lenin's flag
Changed the flag bearer early...
March 31, 2022 at the Crescent Hall in Beijing
Revised on July 4, 2022
Author's Epilogue:
1, I like poetry as an art form, fast, sometimes even when the news is published, can be big and small can be long and short, very similar to contemporary art, and often inseparable from reality.
2. After the poem was written, it was put aside, and I had forgotten the intention of writing it, because Picasso's Guernica suddenly remembered it, and it seemed abrupt here, but in fact, it was not at all, there was its intrinsic connection, especially the disintegration of its picture had a special meaning at present.