Talk:Spanish Civil War/Archive 11

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: • 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. Alberto advocates for the strength of the common man, believing that movement forward will rely on elements found in the rural landscape. 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.

• 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. The woman is placed on a wooden box, displaying a political undertone which many akin to Socialist Realism. 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."

• 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.

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. 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. The painting has since been herald as an anti-war work and a symbol of peace in the 20th century.

• 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. 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." 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.

- Picasso Centers all over world under Monarchist Flag: Picasso, Great Artist of Our Monarchy - absurd Desde1931 (talk) 00:47, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Spanish Tricolor
is eternal - it was meant and means: this land is yours and mine, we the people, in God (not priest) we trust

Desde1931 (talk) 23:30, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Translation from Spanish language version
Spanish to English translators please help with this very important article Isthisuseful (talk) 21:49, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Soviet volunteers
This must be a joke. Any person travelling abroad was supervised by NKVD. Xx234 (talk) 14:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Portuguese Volunteers
The "20,000" figure is inaccurate. Thomas's 1961 edition was influenced by contemporary propaganda. The "Viriatos" amounted to two banderas of the Spanish Legion, at most 2,000 men.

Al-nofi (talk) 15:48, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

World War/Civil War
I am sorry if simple, but for Germany and Italy it was world war. For other lands world war is called when Britain has declared war. Think as Hitler: ''Spanish Republic helps defend French Republic. How many problems solved with Spanish Civil War?'' Desde1931 (talk) 00:06, 2 February 2015 (UTC)