In Picasso’s footsteps in political cartoon
Dave Brown and The Independent
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24310/re.14.2023.16968Keywords:
Dave Brown, Guernica, Picasso, Caricatura política, The IndependentAbstract
Dave Brown (Barnehurst, 1957), political cartoonist for the British newspaper The Independent since 1996, acquired an artistic training in Fine Art at the University of Leeds, which reveals weekly through a caricature inspired by an artwork. The great artists are represented, with Caravaggio, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Goya, Turner and van Gogh as his main references. And to all of them Picasso is added, to whom he has gone on several occasions since 1999, when he was inspired by The Three Dancers (1925). Other works by the artist from Malaga that serve as a reference are Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932), The Rooster (1938) and Still Life with a Bull’s Skull (1939). And also Guernica (1937), in which he recognizes its universal validity as a manifesto against war and violence, as reflected in his works condemning the attacks on the Atocha Station (2004) and The Rambla in Barcelona (2017), as well as the bombings in the Gaza Strip (2009). Based on the bibliographic and newspaper consultation and the author’s valuable personal testimony, this paper investigates the relationship between Picasso’s work and political news through Dave Brown’s cartoons.
Downloads
Metrics
References
Alley, R. (1981). Catalogue of the Tate Gallery’s Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists. Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet.
Barr, A. H. (1946). Picasso. Fifty Years of his Art. MOMA.
Boggs, J. S., Léal, B. & Bernadac, M-L. (1992). Picasso and things. The still lifes of Picasso. Cleveland Museum of Art.
Bourekba, M. (Coord.) (2018). Atentados de Barcelona: reacciones, explicaciones y debates pendientes. CIDOB.
Bower, T. (2007). Gordon Brown. Prime Minister. Harper Perennial.
Bozal Chamorro, L. (2014). La metamorfosis en tiempos de guerra. En Picasso en el taller (pp. 167 y 170-171). Fundación Mapfre.
Brassaï (2002). Conversaciones con Picasso. Turner y Fondo de Cultura Económica.
British Cartoon Archive (s.f.). Dave Brown. Recuperado de: https://www.cartoons.ac.uk/cartoonist-biographies/a-b/DaveBrown.html
Brown. D. (9 de marzo de 2023). Comunicación personal.
Brown. D. (17 de noviembre de 2021). Modern cartoonists can still learn from the famous James Gillray. That’s why I’ve chosen to honour him. The Independent. Recuperado de: www.independent.co.ik/voices/cartoonists-dave-brown-james-gillray-b1959488.html
Brown, D. (2008). Drawing with Purpose in Politics. En L. Duff y Ph. Sawdon (Eds.), Drawing. The Purpose (pp. 1-12). Intellect Books.
Clark, T. J. (2018). Picasso 1932. Love, Fame, Tragedy. Tate Publishing.
Clark, T. J. (2017). Picasso y la tragedia. En Piedad y terror en Picasso. El camino a Guernica (pp. 19-64). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Cox, N. y Povey, D. (1995). A Picasso Bestiary. Academy Editions Ltd.
Cowling, E. (2016). Picasso. Retratos. National Portrait Gallery y Museu Picasso.
EFE (4 de agosto de 2007). Alarma en Reino Unido por un brote de fiebre aftosa en una granja, elmundo.es. Recuperado de: https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/08/04/internacional/1186217483.html
EFE/REUTERS. (21 de enero de 2009). 25 días de ‘Plomo Fundido’ sobre la Franja de Gaza, elmundo.es. Recuperado de: https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/01/03/internacional/1231014514.html
Farage, N. (2 de mayo de 2014). ‘These Far Left egg-chucking protesters look like they need a good wash’, says Farage, Express. Recuperado de: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/473646/These-Far-Left-egg-chucking-protesters-look-like-they-need-a-good-wash-says-Farage
Fresneda, C. (16 de mayo de 2023). ‘El Brexit ha fallado’, reconoce el ex líder del UKIP Nigel Farage, elmundo.es, 16 de mayo de 2023. Recuperado de: https://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2023/05/16/6463b4d121efa0375d8b4590.html
Hiley, N. (2009). Showing Politics to the People: Cartoons, Comics and Satirical Prints. En R. Howells y R. W. Watson (Eds.), Using Visual Evidence (pp. 24-41). Open University Press and McGraw Hill Education.
Igualada Tolosa, C. (2018). Los atentados de Cataluña un año después. Reconstrucción de los acontecimientos, interrogantes y lecciones por aprender. COVITE.
Israel/Gaza: Operation ‘Cast Lead’: 22 days of death and destruction (2009). Amnesty International Publications.
ITV News (1 de mayo de 2014). Nigel Farage hit by egg during Nottingham visit, ITV News. Recuperado de: https://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-05-01/nigel-farage-hit-by-egg-during-nottingham-visit/
Justo, M. (8 de marzo de 2011). El espía británico detenido por los rebeldes libios llevaba una carta de Cameron, ABC Internacional. Recuperado de: https://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-cameron-carta-201103080000_noticia.html
Knudde, K. (2023). Dave Brown. En Lambiek Comiclopedia. Recuperado de: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brown_dave.htm
Kowalska, K. (3 de diciembre de 2013). Interview: Dave Brown of The Independent. En Professional Cartoonist’s Organization. Recuperado de: https://procartoonists.org/interview-dave-brown-of-the-independent/
López Martínez, M. I. (2020). El irracionalismo poético, lenguaje cifrado en clave pictórica. Estudios de Lingüística del Español, 41, 101-115.
Macías, C. (2012). El simbolismo del gallo y su reflejo en la obra de Picasso. Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, 14, 325‐350.
McElroy, D. (14 de marzo de 2004). Al-Qaeda: We were behind the massacre in Madrid, The Daily Telegraph, p. 2.
Migge, B. (2022). Silencing the Winning Opposition: An Irish Pre-election Interview. En M. Mayar y M. Schulte (Eds.), Silence and its derivates. Conversations Across Disciplines (pp. 331-347). Palgrave Macmillan.
Morris, N. (11 de agosto de 2007). Hopes rise that disease has not spread, The Independent, p. 6.
Picasso et la guerre (2019). Gallimard.
Press Release Christie’s (4 de mayo de 2010). A New World Auction Record for any artwork: Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust sells for a staggering $106.5 million. Recuperado de: http://www.search-antiques.com/fr/revue-art/2008/news/Results040510.pdf
Rees-Mogg, W. (24 de mayo de 2010). The splitting headache for David Cameron and Nick Clegg, Daily Mail. Recuperado de: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1280512/WILLIAM-REES-MOGG-The-splitting-headache-David-Cameron-Nick-Clegg.html
Robinson, W. H. (2020). Guernica and the War Years. En Picasso and Paper (pp. 202-241). Royal Academy of Arts.
Robles Tardío, B. (2019). Informe Guernica. Sobre el lienzo de Picasso y su imagen. Ediciones Asimétricas.
Rosenblum, R. (1998). Picasso’s Disasters of War: The Art of Blasphemy. En S. A. Nash (Ed.), Picasso and the War Years: 1937-1945 (pp. 39-53). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Salazar Jiménez, P. M. (2019). El bestiario de Picasso durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Boletín de arte, 40, 327-330.
Suárez, E. (12 de mayo de 2010). David Cameron, nuevo primer ministro británico gracias a un pacto con los liberales, El Mundo. Recuperado de: https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/05/11/internacional/1273604974.html
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Eviterna Journal
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
All the contents published in Revista Eviterna are subject to the Creative Commons Reconocimento-NoComercia-Compartirigual 4.0 license, the full text of which can be found at <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0>
They may be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly exposed, provided that:
The authorship and original source of your publication (Journal, editorial and URL of the work) are cited.
They are not used for commercial purposes.
The existence and specifications of this use license are mentioned.
Copyright is of two kinds: moral rights and patrimonial rights. Moral rights are perpetual, inalienable, inalienable, inalienable, inalienable and imprescriptible prerogatives.
In accordance with copyright legislation, Revista Eviterna recognizes and respects the moral rights of the authors, as well as the ownership of the economic right, which will be transferred to the University of Malaga for dissemination in open access.
The economic rights refer to the benefits obtained by the use or disclosure of the works. Revista Eviterna is published in open access and is exclusively authorized to carry out or authorize by any means the use, distribution, disclosure, reproduction, adaptation, translation or transformation of the work.
It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the necessary permissions of the images that are subject to copyright.
12.png)
