The famous very dark painting that shows pain and chaos on innocent civilians. Picasso was working on a mural for the Paris Exhibition that was to be held in the summer of 1937.This lead to the Spanish Civil war lasted from 1936-1939 which was seen as an anti-war. Picasso discontinued his idea of that mural on May 1st, 1937 so that he could be working on the painting Guernica. He did this because of the bombing that happen in his country. Throughout the painting created a atmosphere of the unknown to say they could be alive or dead hopeing for certainty. There was a lot of detail information about the painting. Guernica showed pain, death, fear, loneliness and darkness. Picasso uses black, white, and grey paint to set a somber mood and express
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There was a 3 hour long bombing on April 26th 1937 what did so much damage to the land and the people. The citizen 's that live there couldn’t even get out to safety because the roads and the bridges were destroyed. There were over 3,000 bombs that were drop on the city that killed 1,645 people and thousand were wounded. It was mainly woman and children since the men were away fighting. Every moving person was shot with machine guns so if they ran they were killed. This is so crazy because if the men were gone and the city was left to defend for themselves this is something they couldn’t control. Something like that can even happen today. Things like that we call it terrorist and somethings has recently as of November 2015 Paris was hit with a attack so this is …show more content…
The light bulb is used as a symbol of a torch cell for the people that were killed in the bombing in the city. The bombing in the painting is seen as death, chaos, and pain.
This panting Guernica was based on the death of the county on this bad day in history. But there was always hope in the painting. "I paint this way because it’s a result of my thought. I have worked for years to obtain this result. I cant use an ordinary manner just to have the satisfaction of being understood." Pablo Picasso. Thus Guernica was a very moving peace to get to understand. The detail work is somewhat hard to understand but its clear to see that the panting is based on chaos, pain, and death. Now a days Guernica is seen as a icon as the first truly modern history painting.
Guernica is now held in the capital of Spain, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Picasso didn’t want his painting in his hometown because of everything hat was going on yet, but that all changed when everything got back on tracked and when that happen it was 1973 the year Picasso had died. This painting is a ambiguous symbolic meaning which has so many different monumental measurements with this
There was a 3 hour long bombing on April 26th 1937 what did so much damage to the land and the people. The citizen 's that live there couldn’t even get out to safety because the roads and the bridges were destroyed. There were over 3,000 bombs that were drop on the city that killed 1,645 people and thousand were wounded. It was mainly woman and children since the men were away fighting. Every moving person was shot with machine guns so if they ran they were killed. This is so crazy because if the men were gone and the city was left to defend for themselves this is something they couldn’t control. Something like that can even happen today. Things like that we call it terrorist and somethings has recently as of November 2015 Paris was hit with a attack so this is …show more content…
The light bulb is used as a symbol of a torch cell for the people that were killed in the bombing in the city. The bombing in the painting is seen as death, chaos, and pain.
This panting Guernica was based on the death of the county on this bad day in history. But there was always hope in the painting. "I paint this way because it’s a result of my thought. I have worked for years to obtain this result. I cant use an ordinary manner just to have the satisfaction of being understood." Pablo Picasso. Thus Guernica was a very moving peace to get to understand. The detail work is somewhat hard to understand but its clear to see that the panting is based on chaos, pain, and death. Now a days Guernica is seen as a icon as the first truly modern history painting.
Guernica is now held in the capital of Spain, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Picasso didn’t want his painting in his hometown because of everything hat was going on yet, but that all changed when everything got back on tracked and when that happen it was 1973 the year Picasso had died. This painting is a ambiguous symbolic meaning which has so many different monumental measurements with this