When "Massacre in Korea" was exhibited in the May Salon of 1951,
it was doubly controversial. Not only that painting was criticized
by the US, but was also criticized within the French Communist
Party for not conforming to the socialist realist style. They found
"Massacre in Korea" too abstract and lacking emotional appeal as
compared with "Guernica."
From this point of time, several doubts were raised for me.
First of all, I wonder why this painting was criticized by the US.
Is this because he was a member of the Communists or because he
really was anti-American as rumored? But the weird thing is that
this painting was actually erased from publications in South Korea
and Japan under the control of American power, and was prohibited
by government for public display until the 1990s in Korea. The
American regime feared that "Massacre in Korea" portrayed an image
of American violence against innocent Koreans. There have been some
opinions voiced that the painting was based on a massacre of Korean
civilians by US forces at No Gun Ri on 26-29 July 1950.
In 1953, a Japanese publisher named Sojusha used the image on
the cover of a book, which alleged the American military used
viruses during the Korean War. In Korea,
What is a peice of propogada what is said here is false. Picaso
was a communist and probaly anti American.
It dipicts a masacre that never happened. The massacre in
qustion was invented by the North Koreans. They have many peices of
propoganda that are quite famous due to their extremely grafic
nature.
