The Dream and Lie of Franco
- The Dream and Lie of Franco
The Dream and Lie of Franco is a series of fourteen[National Gallery of Victoria: [http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/picasso/education/ed_JTE_ITG.html An Introduction to Guernica] ] or eighteen][PBS: [http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/gnav_level_1/1bcause_guerfrm.html Picasso's commitment to the cause] ] clarifyme etchings, and accompanying prose poem, by Pablo Picasso produced in early 1937.]The etchings were intended to be published as postcards to raise funds for the Spanish Republican government, and sold at the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World Fair.
"The Dream and Lie of Franco" is Picasso's first overtly political work and prefigures his iconic political painting Guernica. The etchings satirise Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's claim to represent and defend conservative Spanish culture and values by showing him in various ridiculous guises destroying Spain and its culture while the poem denounces "evil-omened polyps" [Michigan Today: [http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/02/Sum02/mt13j02.html Picasso's War] ] .
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