Spanish Civil War

Cría Cuervos is a Spanish film written and directed by Carlos Saura in 1975, at the same time as the death of Franco and the beginning of the end of Francoism. Throughout Cría Cuervos there are many prevalent themes; such as death, imagination and women. This essay will be looking at the theme of women within Cría Cuervos which is interesting because the film seems to challenge the Francoist ideals and the values of Spanish society by providing centrality to female characters, which gives them…

'Guernica' begins in January 1937, when the Government of the Republic orders Picasso a large square of 11x4 meters for the Spanish pavilion of the Universal Exhibition to be held that year in Paris. However, a few days before, on April 26, the Basque town of Gernika had been bombed and devastated by the German Condor Legion. The subject runs by word of mouth among the Spanish in Paris and the French press also echoes this. All the experts agree that the popular comments and the black and white…

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…

Guernica, whom Picasso then countered, “no, you did”. By its history, Guernica has great significance. Especially, because this public critique of the Spanish Nationalist regime and the German Nazis was highly political and a loud scream for change and self-reflection in the regimes. Furthermore, it was not common until after the second world war for artists to get involved in political affairs and directly attack their operations. Guernica, 1937, Oil on Canvas, is a very large painting that…

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…

The film of The Language of Butterflies was released on June 16 in 2000 with the director, José Luis Cuerda. It is about a shy child and his kind teacher in 1936, during the civil war in Spain. Moncho, is afraid to start school, and it is up to the kind and compassionate Don Gregorio to help him. When the civil war begins, the lives of the two are changed. In my opinion, history was an important part of the history of Spain and I will tell you the movie three point seven of five stars. The…

Guernica, a village in Spain, was bombed with sixty-six tons of bombs that killed between two hundred fifty and three hundred civilians; the bombing of the rural village had no military value (Manzanares). German fighters swarmed the village, gunning down citizens trying to escape from the burning city (“Bombing of Guernica”). Pablo Picasso, inspired by this tragedy, painted a large, eleven-foot-tall mural entitled Guernica. In the painting, Picasso represented the horror of being trapped and…

second republic. The war lasted from 1936 to 1939, killing over 500 000 civilians. The 2 general causes of the…

the innocence of children, and their interactions with the supernatural. He created a new type of horror films, which are similar in narrative and structure as they are based off of fantasy and gothic aspects. While Labyrinth mixed fairy tales with a war storyline, Devil’s Backbone replaces the fairies with ghosts. Pan 's Labyrinth concerns a little girl named Ofelia who discovers a magical faun that commands her to complete three tasks, each more difficult and terrifying than the previous to…

Teddy Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War Introduction Three years before Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States, then Colonel Theodore Roosevelt assembled a volunteer cavalry known as the “Rough Riders,” formally known as the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. The Rough Riders were one of just three volunteer cavalries assembled for the war and were the only one of the three to see combat. Roosevelt, the former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, pushed for…