Recreating Picasso's Guernica – out of chocolate
When Picasso painted Guernica in 1937, he did not employ his usual palette. Rather he turned to black, white and grey house paints, specially selected in order to achieve the minimum amount of gloss. The outcome is one of the most famous anti-war paintings as well as one of the most famous monochromatic works of art – up there with Ingres’ Odalisque in Grisaille and Malevich’s Black Square. Now, on the 85th anniversary of the bombing that Guernica depicts, a team of 40 master craftsmen from the association of Basque Confectioners (Euskal Gozogileak) has paid tribute to Picasso’s c...
Source: apollo-magazine.com
