See also: 1936 in art, other events of 1937, 1938 in art, list of years in art, List of art events. 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...
Pablo Picasso painted Weeping Woman, a cubistic portrait influenced by the German bombing of the Spanish Basque town of Guernica. It became a very famous mural which includes a figure of a weeping woman clutching a handkerchief in mourning to her dead child.
Young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art, probably most famous as the founder, along with Georges Braque, of Cubism. ...
The aim of this organization was to halt the "corruption of art" and inform the people about the relationship between race and art.
In 1937, Nazi officials purged German museums of works the Party considered to be degenerate.
This excerpt from the exhibition catalog for "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany" describes the historical roots of degenerate art.
Cubism allows the artist to express what Albert Einstein defined in 1905 in his theory of relativity: a new sense of time, space, and energy in which moving figures become an extension of the environment from which they are indistinguishable (4).
As art, the world, and self converge, continuity and brokenness, symmetrical progression, life and death, pain and hope can be viewed within a broader aesthetic reality (6).
In a systematically crowded composition (deliberately undermining the academic rules of art), figures are crammed into the foreground: screaming mother cradling dead child, corpse with wide open eyes, arm holding lamp, fighter’s arm with weapon, menacing human-faced bull, gored horse.
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