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The Charnel House
Unfinished painting by Pablo Picasso
This article is about the Picasso painting. For other uses, see Charnel House (disambiguation).
"Le Charnier" redirects here. For other uses, see Charnier (disambiguation).
| The Charnel House | |
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| Artist | Pablo Picasso |
| Year | 1944-1945 |
| Medium | Oil and charcoal on canvas |
| Dimensions | 199.8 cm × 250.1 cm (78.7 in × 98.5 in) |
| Location | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
The Charnel House (French: Le Charnier) is an unfinished 1944–1945 oil and charcoal on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which is purported to deal with the Nazigenocide of the Holocaust. The black and white 'grisaille' composition centres on a massed pile of corpses and was based primarily upon film and photographs of a slaughtered family during the Spanish Civil War.[1] It is considered to be the second of three major anti-war Picassos, preceded by Guernica in 1937 and succeeded by Massacre in Korea in 1951. The painting is housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Background
[edit]This painting is considered to be an anti-war statement, yet Picasso was largely apolitical until the Spanish Civil War. His art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler said
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Picasso since 1945
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Pablo Picasso's Political Art
As fascism became popular throughout Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, Picasso became increasingly engaged in anti-fascist activism. He joined the French Communist Party in 1944 and remained a member until his death, believing that it would fight against the spread of fascism and promote social justice. He saw this activism as “the logical consequence of my whole life, of my whole work.” Months before the bombing of Guernica Picasso created his first overtly political work, The Dream And Lie Of Franco, a collection of two sets of prints, totaling 18 separate illustrations, paired with a related prose poem. The images form a narrative in comic book-like shape, and the dictator’s form shifts in each stage, as he is shown destroying traditional aspects of Spanish life and culture such as bull-running and flamenco dancing.
Picasso further created numerous political works during this period, using this celebrity status to expose the brutality of fascist regimes and rally support for the anti-fascist cause. One such work is The Charnel House, a painting that is often seen as a companion piece to Guernica. Created in 1944-45, it depicts the aftermath of a fascist massacre, with dismembered bodies piled together in a gruesome scene. Like Guer