guernica

For a different example, let's consider temporal contextuality; you describe Guernica being reliant on this.

Because Guernica was made by a human who was passionate about something, and poured that passion into his work.

Jeez, you'd look at Guernica today and complain Picasso was an SJW with an attitude like that.

If Guernica was AI generated but still displayed by Picasso as a statement about war, it would still be art.

Picasso's Guernica was born of hate, his hate of war, of dehumanization for petty political ends.

Not even painting is a Guernica nor does it need to be.

You can think of it as how one might feel looking at a painting of Dance in the Country by Renoir and Guernica by Picasso.

Full disclosure, Guernica is one of my personal favorites and I initially felt pretty poorly about this particular string of words.

All I want is a Guernica sized borderless home art display.

My first instinct looking at Guernica is that I also feel nothing, but one can limit oneself and say: if I feel nothing initially, I will feel nothing at all.

I'm pretty sure the bombing of Guernica did not look exactly as Picasso portrayed it, but his painting is still a powerful piece that we can use to understand the artist's feelings about the historical event.

For Guernica you also have to understand Picasso's fascination with primitive art, prehistoric cave art, children's drawings and abstraction, the historic moment when photography took over the role of realistic depiction, freeing painters to express themselves more in terms of emotional impressions and abstractions.

To honor the "spirit" of OP's post: I looked up Picasso's Guernica now out of curiosity.

Thirdly, and mostly, because even though you just "looked up Guernica now out of curiosity", you imagine your uninformed opinion worthy of consideration to someone else out there.

If someone prompts an AI, "generate an image in the style of Picasso's Guernica", then the result of that, by definition, has no deeper meaning.

If that's your idea of a "nightmare", I have some recommendations for you: read Elie Wiesel's "Night", look at Guernica, visit an FGM activism web site, maybe volunteer at a suicide or rape crisis hotline.

Now, just like you can with Studio Ghibli art, you can generate new images in the style of Guernica.

It's still art and it still can have artistic value, but it'll never possess the intangibles carried by, say, Guernica.

The painting was made in a specific historic context and commemorates the bombing of Guernica.