The Guggenheim Bilbao’s major spring exhibition, scheduled to open on 16 March, is entitled: L’Art en Guerre. France, 1938–1947: from Picasso to Dubuffet.
The show has been organised by the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris-Musées and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
It aims to tell the story of how French artists reacted to their country's defeat by the Nazis in 1940 and the subsequent occupation; in particular by considering how artists rebelled against the official reasons given for defeat and the collaboration of their leaders.
On show are more than 500 works by some 100 artists, including Georges Braque, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Vasily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso and Joseph Steib.
Their creations show how the artistic community resisted and reacted in adversity, ‘making war on war’ with the limited materials they had at their disposal at a time of austerity, and in the context of considerable personal danger.
For more about the exhibition, click here.
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