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GUERNICA
Historical context
Picasso was born in 1881 in Malga (Spain), in 1900 he went to France, he avoided being too political. Nationalists eventually triumphed against Republicans in 1939 with Franco (he ruled in Spain until (1975). Franco attacked the Prado Museum: Picasso felt personally offended.
The Republicans commissioned Picasso the Spanish Pavilion at the world's fair in 1937 in Paris, but Picasso was impressed by Franco's attack to the Basque town of Guernica (Northern home base of the Republican resistance)
26th April 1937 - Guernica was destroyed by German and Italian planes dropping over 3,000 bombs. The town was defenseless, 1645 people died with no escape, other were wounded, turning into an Inferno.
Picasso painted Guernica in 1937, it's conserved in Madrid (Spain)
characters
At first it's a very dynamic scene with several humans and animals consisting of geometric shapes in a tragic situation.
At the bottom there's a light bulb at illuminating the interior, but the right side of the painting suggests an outdoor scene
On the left there's a woman with a senseless child, on the ride an agonized woman and a one screaming.
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A woman brings in a candle even if there's the light bulb(that's linked to modernity), on the ground a flower is evident.
complex structure
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every element leads to the horse, the central figure
variation of perspectives, hardly distinguishable placement, lack of background
geomtric shapes, fragmentation and deformation
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color
appearant use of white, but it's a light gray
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references
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Symbolism
Some of the elements seem to have originated directly in the event represented, but most of them have an allegorical meaning: the painting is ambiguous.
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