Expressionism , sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and newOn 26 April 1937 the Basque town of Guernica was bombed by Hitler’s Luftwaffe and the Italian Legionary Air Force. Picasso , a Spanish artist settled in Paris, paid homage to the killed with this cubist history painting.
Here it is his proto-abstraction rendering of air and water, of light, movement and colour that first catches the viewer’s eye. Then the skeleton of the ship emerges from the roiling seas and finally, there right in front of us, the dead and dying enslaved people who had been discarded.
Her nest-building protective spider-mothers suggest a dangerous side, too. Their spindly legs threaten entanglement or a trap, like her caged environments of the 1980s. The psychological cannibalism evoked by her key installation, Destruction of the Father , a family dinner whose guests are breast-like or phallic abstract lumps, also comes to mind. A spider’s intentions can be just as deadly, as with the notorious black widows’ post-sex meal.
Photograph: Whitney Museum of American Art/Scala/Art Resource, NY/Gagosian/Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/Licensed by Artestar, New York
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