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Symbols in Guernica by Pablo Picasso

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  • The bull on the left stands as a hero and a victim of combat.
  • The body of the horse is wounded by a spear, thus rears his head in excruciating pain.
  • The role of the horse in the painting resembles its role in the bullring when attacked by the bull.
  • Four women
  • One carries a dead infant
  • Other carries a lamp
  • The third is consumed by the flames of a burning building
  • The fourth has broken limbs
  • All women issue voiceless screams which are meant to resemble the pain of the wounded horse

Symbols in Guernica

by Pablo Picasso

Sources

  • Fierro, Gloria K. The Humsn tradition Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Global Perspective 6th ed. Vol. 6. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. Print.
  • http://www.jmu.edu/evision/Volume12/Brittain.html
  • http://madrid.blogs.wm.edu/2009/04/12/the-meanings-behind-the-images/#more-86

Symbols cont.

Symbols

  • Dead warrior at the bottom is actually a broken statue
  • Picasso was able to create a universal icon for the inhuman atrocities of war by using animals, women, and other images
  • Believed art was a “weapon against enemy

Other symbols

The Painting

  • Captures the brutality and sufferings of wartime
  • Monochromatic tones- the ashen grays of incineration
  • The painting conveys the actual event of the bombing with an assortment of images drawn from Picassos personal pictorial vocabulary
  • Conveys the essence of bullfighting, the ancient ritual of sacrificial death which intrigued Picasso.

Background

  • Happened on the afternoon of April 26, 1937
  • During the Spanish civil war
  • Republican forces against the Fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco
  • Germans air force in accordance with the Spanish Fascist dropped bombs on Guernica
  • After 3 ½ hours of bombing the town was leveled and thousands of people were killed

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