Massacre in Korea

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Massacre in Korea is a 1951 anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts the brutal killing of civilians during the Korean War in a stark, politically charged style.

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Massacre en Corée 1
Massacre in Korea canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
artworkStyle expressionist elements
figurative
politically charged
colorPalette contrasting dark and light areas
muted tones
composition strong horizontal division
two opposing groups facing each other
countryOfOrigin France
creator Pablo Picasso
depicts armed soldiers
children
execution of civilians
firing squad
women
depictsTimePeriod Korean War
genre anti-war art
hasMotif dehumanization in war
fear and terror
power imbalance between armed and unarmed
victimization of non-combatants
hasPart barren landscape background
dark sky
group of heavily armed soldiers
group of naked women and children
suggested ruined architecture
inception 1951
inspiredBy Korean War atrocities
Chios massacre in 1822
surface form: The Massacre at Chios

The Third of May 1808
languageOfTitle English
locationOfCreation Vallauris
mainSubject Korean War
massacre of civilians
movement Modern art
Picasso’s late period
narrativeLocation Korean Peninsula
surface form: Korea
originalTitle Massacre in Korea self-linksurface differs
surface form: Massacre en Corée
originalTitleLanguage French
partOf Picasso’s political works
politicalTheme anti-war
condemnation of violence against civilians
critique of military aggression
relatedWork Guernica
The Charnel House
significantWorkOf Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso notableWork Massacre in Korea
Massacre in Korea originalTitle Massacre in Korea self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Massacre en Corée