Strategic bombing

Spain. On April 27, 1937 the first known bombing of civilian population happen to a city in northern Spain called Guernica. The death toll is not completely known but it ranges between 200-1600. The bombing went on for three hours. There was continuous fire. The only reason the Nazis committed a crime against humanity like this is that they wanted to test and see if their aerial bombs were as powerful as they thought. Pablo Picasso was in Paris while the bombings on Guernica occurred and did not…

1937 painting, “Guernica”, was a large mural painted by Picasso, a well-known artist during this time. The painting’s depiction of bodies and animals screaming and writhing in agony is thought to be a visual message responding to the destruction and bombing of a village located in Guernica, Spain, which happened around the time the painting was released. Furthermore, the widespread attention that Picasso received for this work helped bring attention to the Spanish Civil War. The use of black and…

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 helpless, much as the citizens of Guernica must have felt in the bombing and gunning runs. The…

in time to be featured in France’s World Fair, after the bombing of the town Guernica in Spain on April 26 of that same year.i Pablo Picasso was known not to be very involved with politics in till the takeover of Spain by Socialists and Communist groups in 1936. This takeover lead to many revolts that resulted in the bombing of the town of Guernica. Picasso having been born and raised in Spain felt great pain when hearing about the bombing and the death of many innocent people in his country,…

struggle for power that escalated to World War II. The bull is a motif of destruction, and a representation of the brutality of fascism (“Guernica”). Like the rampaging bull, the German forces left a trail of destruction in its conquest for power. Bombing the town directly in order to test out war tactics forced the citizens to…

Exposition. Picasso at first instance has not idea about the subject of his painting but he received inspiration from the consternation that he suffered when he read in a newspaper that “in the afternoon of the 26th of April 1937, German planes began bombing the town of Guernica, trying out some of their new weaponry and military tactics. Germany, under the direction of Adolf Hitler, had supported the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War with weapons and other material…

paint an oil on canvas mural for the 1937 World Fair in Paris, France. Guernica is a large piece, sitting at twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was placed at the entrance of their pavilion. Picasso found inspiration from reading about the bombing of Guernica, Spain by the German air force, and although not a complete portrayal of the event, Picasso conveys the suffering and agony of the people and the tragedy of the war. Using only black, white, and grey oil paints, the mural uses…

“Slaughterhouse of Humanity” during the 20th century. He had several pieces about historical moments and notorious people. Some of them were the Nazi concentration camps from 1935 to 1945, the Spanish civil war in 1936, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, a failed military invasion. “La Edad de la Ira”, Playa Girón 3. Nelson Rockefeller went to his first exhibition During his first ever exhibition, the current Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, attended.…

the bombings brought, quickly put down his ideas for Guernica in pencil sketches. Research has found at least 40 sketches that were done in the week before he began work on the final mural. In his early versions, a clinched, socialist fist was sketched rising from the dead bodies. This did not make it to the final version for unknown reasons. Another part that does not appear in the…

Assess the ways in which any two artists have responded to conflict in the twentieth century Pablo Picasso and Chris Offili have both respectively created artworks which display their reaction to conflict in the twentieth century. Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ of 1937 remains one of the most emotionally charged paintings that exists today portraying the atrocities of war in Spain, while Offili’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ painting 61 years later shows a reaction to a more contemporary event in which the theme…