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Images of the war Photographs Poets and writers Paintings Picasso Images of the war photo: Robert Capa Images of the war photo: Robert Capa Images of the war photo: Robert Capa Images of the war photo: Robert Capa Images of the war photo: Robert Capa Poets, and writers Poets: W.H.Auden The stars are dead. The animals will not look. We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say alas but cannot help or pardon. from Spain Stephen Spender Evil lifts a hand and the heads of flowers fall – The pall of the hero who by the Ebro bleeding Feeds with his blood the stones that rise and call, Tall as any man, ‘No pasaran!” from Elegy on Spain Poets and writers Writers: George Orwell on Barcelona, 1936 …there was something of the evil atmosphere of war. The town had a gaunt untidy look, roads and buildings were in poor repair, the streets at night were dimly lit for fear of air-raids, the shops were mostly shabby and half-empty. Meat was scarce and milk practically unobtainable, there was a shortage of coal, sugar and petrol, and a really serious shortage of bread. Even at this period the bread-queues were often hundreds of yards long. Yet so far as one could judge the people were contented and hopeful. There was no unemployment, and the price of living was still extremely low; you saw very few conspicuously destitute people, and no beggars except the gypsies. #Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. In the barbers' shops were Anarchist notices (the barbers were mostly Anarchists) solemnly explaining that barbers were no longer slaves. In the streets were coloured posters appealing to prostitutes to stop being prostitutes. To anyone from the hard-boiled, sneering civilization of the English-speaking races there was something rather pathetic in the literalness with which these idealistic Spaniards took the hackneyed phrase of revolution. At that time revolutionary ballads of the naivest kind, all about the proletarian brotherhood and the wickedness of Mussolini, were being sold on the streets for a few centimes each. I have often seen an illiterate militiaman buy one of these ballads, laboriously spell out the words, and then, when he had got the hang of it, begin singing it to an appropriate tune… from Homage to Catalonia Poets and writers Writer/poet: Laurie Lee Now I am still and spent and lie in a whited sepulchre breathing dead but there will be no lifting of the damp swathes no return of blood no rolling away the stone till the cocks carve sharp gild scars in the morning and carry the stirring sun and the early dust to my ears Words Asleep, Andalucia, 1936 Poets and writers Poet/diplomat:: Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) winner of the Nobel Prize, 1971 Writer and playwright: Lillian Hellman Writer/diplomat:: Andre Malraux Novelist: John Dos Passos Poets and writers Writer/poet: Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936) the greatest Spanish writer of the 20th-Century beaten to death by Falangists, August 19, 1936 Poets and writers Writer/poet: Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936) I have shut the balcony window because I do not want to hear the weeping, yet from behind the grey walls nothing else is heard but the weeping. There are very few angels that sing, there are very few dogs that bark, a thousand violins fit into the palm of my hand. But the weeping is an immense dog, the weeping is an immense angel, the weeping is an immense violin, tears muffle the wind, and nothing else is heard but the weeping. Casida of the weeping, 1936 Paintings Miro Paintings http://www.artquotes.net/masters/sa Dali Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) 1936 Paintings http://www1.uol.com.br/bienal/2 Dali Canibalismo 1936 Paintings http://www.softy.co.il/UsersList.asp?Filter=&PagePosition=2 Dali La ciudad de los cajones 1936 Paintings http://www.kliccami.com/Sfondi/quadri/iventionsofthemonster1024 Dali The Invention of Monsters 1937 “The women-horses represent the maternal river-monsters, the flaming giraffe the male cosmic apocalyptic monster. The angel-cat is the divine heterosexual monster, the hour-glass the metaphysical monster. Gala and Dalн together the sentimental monster. The little lonely blue dog is not a true monster.“ Dali Paintings http://ict.udlap.mx/people/alfredo/personal/dali - spain.jpg Dali España 1938 Paintings Kars Execution of a Priest Paintings Pierre Daura Self-Portrait as a Loyalist Soldier, 1938 René Magritte 1937 The airplane in the Spanish Civil War The Black Flag e/22Black_Flag.jpg http://utenti.lycos.it/principesse/magritt “I painted a picture, The Black Flag, which was a foreshadowing of the future bombing terrors. And I am not proud of it.” Pablo Picasso The airplane in the Spanish Civil War Guernica s/uncategorized/guernica.jpg http://terresdefemmes.blogs.com/photo music: from Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias by Maurice Ohana THE TRAGEDY OF GUERNICA TOWN DESTROYED IN AIR ATTACK EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT from The Times, April 27, 1937 Guernica •Bilbao, April 27 Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basques and the centre of their cultural tradition, was completely destroyed yesterday afternoon by insurgent air raiders. The bombardment of this open town far behind the lines occupied precisely three hours and a quarter, during which a powerful fleet of aeroplanes consisting of three German types, Junkers and Heinkel bombers, did not cease unloading on the town bombs weighing from 1,000 lb. downwards and, it is calculated, more than 3,000 twopounder aluminium incendiary projectiles. The fighters, meanwhile, plunged low from above the centre of the town to machine- gun those of the civilian population who had taken refuge in the fields. The whole town of Guernica was soon in flames except the historic Casa de Juntas with its rich archives of the Basque race, where the ancient Basque Parliament used to sit. The famous oak of Guernica, the dried old stump of 600 years and the young new shoots of this century, was also untouched. Here the kings of Spain used to take the oath to respect the democratic rights (fueros) of Vizcaya and in return received a promise of allegiance as suzerains with the democratic title of Senor, not Rey [de] Vizcaya. The noble parish church of Santa Maria was also undamaged except for the beautiful chapter house, which was struck by an incendiary bomb. •At 2 a.m. to-day when I visited the town the whole of it was a horrible sight, flaming from end to end. The reflection of the flames could be seen in the clouds of smoke above the mountains from 10 miles away. Throughout the night houses were falling until the streets became long heaps of red impenetrable debris. Many of the civilian survivors took the long trek from Guernica to Bilbao in antique solid-wheeled Basque farmcarts drawn by oxen. Carts piled high with such household possessions as could be saved from the conflagration clogged the roads all night. Other survivors were evacuated in Government lorries, but many were forced to remain round the burning town lying on mattresses or looking for lost relatives and children, while units of the fire brigades and the Basque motorized police under the personal direction of the Minister of the Interior, Senor Monzon, and his wife continued rescue work till dawn. after the bombing Guernica Hemingway in Spain Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War 1937 o North American Newspaper Alliance offers Hemingway $500 for each cabled story and $1000 for each mailed story up to 1200 words. No limit on the number of stories. o Gives $1500 for Loyalist ambulance services, and helps two American Loyalists get to Spain o Jan, Feb: New York, working on the commentary for a Loyalist film Spain in Flames First Civil War trip o March 16 : arrives in Madrid, March 22 joins Martha Gellhorn o April: Nationalists besiege Madrid. Meets Major Robert Merriman, adjutant of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and model for Robert Jordan in Whom the Bell Tolls. Filming of The Spanish earth completed. o May: returns to the U.S.A. via Paris. o June 4th: Speaks to an audience of 3,500 at the League of American Authors Congress in Carnegie Hall Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn http://www.thedesmonds.com/Hemingway/photo2.html http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/karlahuebner/milt/phot The first Civil War trip - 1937 With Milton Wolff in Spain People of Levante! The children, the mothers, and the friends of the heroes of Madrid should not perish under the shrapnel and fire of the fascist planes. Facilitate their evacuation. Give them a warm corner in your home. Evacuation of Madrid http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/hemingway/spanishcinema.jpg Filming The Spanish Earth, 1937 http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/3-4-2002/ivens2.htm TheSpanish Earth, 1937 Filming Filming http://www.ihffilm.com/r718.html http://www.ivens.nl/graphics/spanishearth-villageview.jpg http://www.metroactive.com/paper TheSpanish Earth, 1937 http://www.ivens.nl/film37.htm Filming Filming http://www menggang com/movie/documentary/holland/ivens.