Original artwork description:

Carmen Polo (Oviedo, June 11, 1900 - Madrid, February 6, 1988)
He grew up in a wealthy and bourgeois family in Oviedo, Spain. Carmen was an extremely conservative and religious woman, lover of antiquities, luxuries and power. She was known as "the lady" or "the necklaces" since she used to give out costume jewelery and wear a pearl necklace wherever she went. He met the commander Francisco Franco in Tarna, his family did not accept the relationship with Franco, however they got married and had a daughter named Maria del Carmen. After Franco's dictatorship, most of his marriage, he spent his time traveling and wars. Carmen felt like a nomad because of the changes in places. She witnessed that Spain had a political and economic repression, this made it became the second country in the world in greatest number of missing, between 1940 there were about 280 thousand people detained in prisons and more than 50 thousand men and women were executed . Merged with the famous work of Picasso's Guernica, Francisco Franco bombed the town La Guernica and Picasso made a representation of what happened.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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