The Dream and Lie of Franco [SEP] creator
The Dream and Lie of Franco
The Dream and Lie of Franco is a series of two sheets of prints, comprising 18 individual images, and an accompanying prose poem, by Pablo Picasso produced in 1937. The sheets each contain nine images arranged in a 3x3 grid. The first 14, in etching and aquatint, are dated 8 January 1937. The remaining four images were added to the second printing plate later, without use of aquatint, and dated June 7, 1937.
"The Dream and Lie of Franco
not to use them as a means of expression but to let them speak for themselves as he does sometimes with colours.."
Works 1935–1959 "Dream and Lie of Franco".
"The Dream and Lie of Franco" is presented in a format similar to the popular Spanish strip cartoons of the period known as "aleluyas". It has been called a "unique fusion of words and visual imagery". Art historian Patricia Failing notes that Picasso, who had until this point never made any overtly political work, produced a