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GUERNICA - Coggle Diagram
GUERNICA
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■ On her left, below her, I can see… her breasts exposed
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SYMBOLS
The horse = innocent people. The horse is whinnying in agony from a terrible injury in its side. Underneath the horse are the shattered remnants of the corpse of a dead soldier.
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The dead soldier = martyrdom (broken sword + flower + on the palm of his other hand signs of the stigmata of Christ are visible, indicating martyrdom).
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The blazing light = incendiary bombs that fell on the town, which is also reminiscent of the bare bulb in a prison cell (torture) + it is the shape of an eye of a witness (God?)
On the extreme right of the room, a figure screams in agony as it is engulfed by flames = innocent victim.
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The knife-points in place of the tongues of the bull, horse and wailing woman = the sharpness of their pain.
In addition, two supposedly 'concealed images' have been identified: a human skull whose shape is formed by the nostrils and upper teeth of the horse; and the skull-like head of another bull formed by the angle of its front leg.
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USE OF COLOURS
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A photograph refers to a REAL event; Picasso was influenced by a photo he saw in a newspaper; the setting/time is ‘night’
It is painted in monochrome, using a palette of grey, black, and white, perhaps to reproduce a photographic realism.
was created by Picasso to express his outrage over the Nazi bombing of the Basque city in northern Spain, ordered by General Franco. Since then, this monumental black-and-white canvas has become an international symbol of genocide committed during wartime
is a pictorial condemnation of a cold-blooded, faceless massacre of innocent people
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The scene depicted in Guernica is a room full of moving, screaming and dying adults, children and animals. Most of the individual images are also symbols.