Who: Pablo Picasso, artist What: Painting, 11 feet 6 inches x 25 feet 6 inches, oil on canvas (grey, black, and white paint) When: During the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) the painting was commissioned by the Republican government for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. Picasso was notified in January and the painting…
The creative force behind the following 3-D interpretation of Picasso’s Guernica is Lena Gieseke. Translated from Spanish from http://www.culturainquieta.com: The route of Lena Gieseke, visual artist and actress who, incidentally, when she was married to Tim Burton, allows us to see the work from the most secret details. The video splits the characters allowing the…
Maria Sans is said to be EMH’s inspiration for the character of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, published n 1943. I never noticed anyone talk about or mention her until she died in 2012 at the age of 91. Ms. Sans supposedly met EMH during the Spanish Civil War when she was volunteering as…
Thanks for visiting my “O” post in the A to Z Challenge. EMH wrote a powerful and symbolic short story called “Old Man at the Bridge” first seen in Ken magazine in April 1938. Ken was a publication that lasted from the spring of 1938 to the fall of 1939. The editor for Ken was Arnold…
EMH is known for being a great novelist for such books as The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls, but my favorite works of his to read are the short stories. These short stories, as well as the novellas The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and The Snows of Kilimanjaro are…
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