Papers On Guernica

Many artworks such as fine art, visual art, decorative art and applied art can signify power, politics and glory. Many artists around the world have employed extensive time and dedication to their artwork to depict a social event that they are forward for or against off. Pablo Picasso’s, Guernica is considered one of the greatest anti war statements in the 20th century. According to the Khan Academy, Guernica was a small village in northern Spain that was unexpectedly bombed by Hitler’s powerful air force to test a new bombing tactic. In the process of this fatal attack many civilians where killed and thus this attack has became one of histories first and fatal aerial saturation bombing. Many people depict and have different understandings …show more content…
Power cannot be attributed to only one factor but many factors. According the Khan Academy, one factor that contributed to this attack was that many megalomania people, who included Hitler and the Fascist forces, surrounded and supported Francisco Franco and his beliefs. The second reason as to why I think Franco rose to power was because of his second factor of strength, he was not afraid to prey on the weak. Guernica is a symbolic painting of Franco’s power. Franco’s power is demonstrated throughout the painting through the weeping cries of the woman holding her beheaded child, the mutilated men lying on the floor and the distorted faces of agony and distress caused by the unexpected bombing. Picassos painting also depicts savageness, through the use of his media. The distressed people can be represented by the color black, which symbolizes evil and fear and the color grey, which symbolizes intelligence, the intelligence of bombing a secluded village that lacked a military base. Picasso painted this artwork and displayed it in the Pairs world fair to make people aware of the attack and the people who were …show more content…
The Khan Academy states, “Images overlap and intersect, everything seems jumbled together”. By stating this quote, can help clarify that Picasso’s used cubism as a technique to present many events at same time. Picassos visual is grouped into three categories, to the far left we see a woman aching in pain, which can symbolize distress, to the right we see animals mutilated, which can symbolize torment and last, the center, which is in a form of a triangle where a beam of light is gleaming upon everything, can symbolize hope and prospect. Picasso visual was carefully structured and organized into multiple categories so people can approach the art with a multitude of ideas, thoughts and beliefs all at the same time. Picasso’s visual is also highly connected to the narrative. Guernica is a narrative of an anti war statement which tells the story of people in war that were attacked by the