Picasso’s Guernica filmed in 8K and shown on 325″ display PlatoBlockchain Data Intelligence. Vertical Search. Ai.

Picasso’s Guernica filmed in 8K and shown on 325″ display

A UHD image of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica has gone on display in Tokyo, on a 325-inch screen.

The painting was filmed using an 8K camera by Japanese public service broadcaster NHK.

The 8K Guernica can be seen at the NTT InterCommunication Centre media art gallery, and is part of an initiative by NHK and telecoms company NTT to record cultural assets for future generations.

Picasso painted his masterpiece in 1937 after learning about an at-the-time shocking air raid on civilians in the town of Guernica in Spain’s Basque country. The bombing was carried about by Nazi German and Fascist Italian airplanes, supporting the Nationalist side in the country’s civil war.

The painting, which remains in a museum in Madrid in Spain is 350 centimetres high by 780 centimetres wide and is shown in almost full size on the 325-inch screen.

Viewers can see details of the brushwork, showing people and horses fleeing in panic, and a woman holding a baby and looking up at the sky in despair. The resolution is so high they can also see Picasso’s retouches on his work.

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