During the Civil War Germany invaded Spain with 5 thousand bombs. Waves of German aircraft attack the town with bombs and machine gun fire. The town encountered a rain of incendiary bombs that flooded the city with ash. One thousand six hundred and forty-five people deceased from this event while thousands were left wounded. Guernica was bombed to the ground, which left a great victory for the German. Germany communicated a message of power to the rest of Spain from the attack to Guernica. The streets of Guernica became long massive piles of debris as the night moved on concluding the attack. Picasso develops his paintings to project the truth. Picasso created a painting that portrays deep emotion of how one felt during the attack of Germany.
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In Picasso’s painting the center focus is an evil eye, with a single electric light bulb in the middle. The bulb represents the targeting bomber. Another light produced in the painting was the light of a candle held by a heroic arm. Thus creating a wicked battle of good versus evil.
The speaker in the video creates many different interpretations of Picasso’s painting of Guernica. The speaker interprets the dark colors as the ash fallen from the debris and bombing. The light’s suspect a battle of good and evil. The evil eye creates light to represent the German attacking Guernica. The speaker interprets the bright light in the sky as a search light of the death squad and targeting bomber. With the background knowledge of Guernica, we are able to make connections to each of the speaker’s interpretations because the tragedy is portrayed in Picassos modern art work.
The eight ways of knowing are represented in the artwork visually. Emotion, Imagination, Faith, Memory, and the use of Language are all represented in the painting. Picasso not only communicated to his audience a piece of art but a piece of historical presence, somewhat a visual representation of a textbook. As you visualize the picture one can only imagine the horror the town went through on the day of the attacks. The dark colors communicate that although the bombs fell mid day the dark gloomy ash filled the town with
In Picasso’s painting the center focus is an evil eye, with a single electric light bulb in the middle. The bulb represents the targeting bomber. Another light produced in the painting was the light of a candle held by a heroic arm. Thus creating a wicked battle of good versus evil.
The speaker in the video creates many different interpretations of Picasso’s painting of Guernica. The speaker interprets the dark colors as the ash fallen from the debris and bombing. The light’s suspect a battle of good and evil. The evil eye creates light to represent the German attacking Guernica. The speaker interprets the bright light in the sky as a search light of the death squad and targeting bomber. With the background knowledge of Guernica, we are able to make connections to each of the speaker’s interpretations because the tragedy is portrayed in Picassos modern art work.
The eight ways of knowing are represented in the artwork visually. Emotion, Imagination, Faith, Memory, and the use of Language are all represented in the painting. Picasso not only communicated to his audience a piece of art but a piece of historical presence, somewhat a visual representation of a textbook. As you visualize the picture one can only imagine the horror the town went through on the day of the attacks. The dark colors communicate that although the bombs fell mid day the dark gloomy ash filled the town with