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please ask in international public from Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y de Grecia; born 30 January 1968: ''Was it good or bad that Spanish Civil War broke out?''
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== Art and Propoganda ==
I summarised the following information because Wikipedia is only a summary, but since it's interesting and referenced I thougt it best to reproduce it here in full:
Sculptors:
[[File:El pueblo español (Alberto) Madrid 01.jpg|thumb|upright|Replica of "The Spanish People Have a Path that Leads to a Star" by Alberto Sánchez Pérez, outside the Queen Sofia Museum in Madrid]]
• Alberto Sánchez Pérez - ''El pueblo español tiene un camino que conduce a una estrella maqueta'' ("The Spanish People Have a Path that Leads to a Star") was part of the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris. This 12.5m monolith constructed out of plaster combines surrealism with cactus-like natural forms. The surface of this sculpture is roughed and pockmarked, similar to the tilled land of rural Spain.<ref name="museonacional">[http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/pueblo-espanol-tiene-camino-que-conduce-estrella-maqueta-there-way-spanish-people Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia], El pueblo español tiene un camino que conduce a una estrella (maqueta) (There Is a Way for the Spanish People That Leads to a Star [Maquette]).</ref> Alberto advocates for the strength of the common man, believing that movement forward will rely on elements found in the rural landscape.<ref name="alberto">[http://www.arte.sbhac.net/Plasticos/AlbertoSanchez/AlbertoSanchez.htm Sociedad Benéfica de Historiadores Aficionados y Creadores], Artistas plásticos en la Guerra Civil española (Alberto Sánchez Pérez.</ref> A red star is protruding at the peak, to which the form is reaching, embodies a social utopia, a concept lost during this period of war.<ref name="alberto" />
• Julio González - ''La Montserrat'', which shares its title with a mountain near Barcelona, is created from a sheet of iron which has been hammered and welded to create a peasant mother carrying a small child in one arm and a sickle in the other.<ref name="montserrat">[http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=2231 Museum of Modern Art].</ref> The woman is placed on a wooden box, displaying a political undertone which many akin to Socialist Realism.<ref name="collection" /> González's decision to work in iron was a purposeful antiwar statement, commenting that, “It is high time that this metal ceases to be a murderer and the simple instrument of an overly mechanical science. Today, the door is opened wide for this material to be – at last! – forged and hammered by the peaceful hands of artists." <ref name="collection">[http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/artwork/16628-la-montserrat Stedelijk Museum], Julio González Collection.</ref>
• Alexander Calder - ''Fuente de mercurio (Mercury Fountain)'', featured at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris, was a protest work by the American against the Nationalist forced control of Almade'n and the mercury mines there. The fountain's body is constructed out of iron, with mercury flowing through the sculpture. Because of mercury's toxic nature, the fountain is now stored behind glass at the Fundació Miró, to which Calder gifted ''Fuente de mercurio'' as a symbol of his admiration and friendship of painter Joan Miró.<ref name="buffton">[http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/barcelona/fundmiro/calder.html Four Wings at Fundació Miró].</ref><ref name="eugene">[https://www.flickr.com/photos/mistca/414629951/in/photostream/ Eugene Zhukovsky].</ref>
Painters:
• Pablo Picasso - Painted ''Guernica'' in 1937, taking inspiration from the April 27th's bombing of the village of Guernica. This three hour event, orchistrated by the Germans in support of Franco, killed 1600 civilians - consisting of mostly women and children.<ref name="pbs">[http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/glevel_1/1_bombing.html ...Bombing of Guernica].</ref> ''Guernica'', like many important Republican masterpieces, was featured at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris. The work's size (11 ft by 25.6 ft) grabbed much attention and casted the horrors of the mounting Spanish civil unrest into a global spotlight.<ref name="picasso">[http://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp Pablo Picasso].</ref> The painting has since been herald as an anti-war work and a symbol of peace in the 20th century.<ref name="test">[http://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/arth/arth200/guernica.html SUNY Oneota], Picasso´s Guernica.</ref> [[File:Araia 05.jpg|thumb|A print of ''Guernica'' by Pablo Picasso]]
• Joan Miró - ''El Segador (The Reaper)'', formally titled El campesino catalán en rebeldía (Catalan peasant in revolt), spans a magnificent 18 feet by 12 feet size.<ref name="joan">[http://www.phs.poteau.k12.ok.us/williame/APAH/readings/Joan%20Miro,%20Smithsonian,%20Nov93.pdf Stanley Meisler], For Joan Miro, Painting and Poetry Were the Same.</ref> This work features a peasant brandishing a sickle in the air, to which Miró commented that "The sickle is not a communist symbol. It is the reaper’s symbol, the tool of his work, and, when his freedom is threatened, his weapon."<ref name="test">[http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/reaper-miros-civil-war-protest TATE], 'The Reaper': Miró's Civil War protest.</ref> This work, featured at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris, was shipped back to the Spanish Republic's capital, situated in Valencia, following the Exhibition, yet it has since gone missing or has been destroyed.<ref name="joan" />
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