Bigotry And Social Oppression In The Early 20th Century

     In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, oil on canvas. The Republican Spanish government commissioned the mural for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica is a large mural, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was placed at the entrance to Spain’s pavilion. Picasso did not do any work after receiving the commission until reading of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica, in Spain. It was that attack, perpetrated by the German Luftwaffe, that inspired him. Guernica, however, is not a complete depiction of that event. In Guernica, Picasso masterfully conveys the suffering of the Basque people and the tragedy of war. He seeks not to report on every detail of the bombing, but only to

When working to determine the causes of oppression, one must first establish a definition of the word. Oppression can be perceived as being a broad, which can lead to disempowerment of the term. For the purposes of this paper, oppression is defined through the lens of both institutional and internalized oppression. Institutional oppression is define as the occurrence of established laws, customs, and practices systematically reflecting and producing inequities based on one’s membership in targeted social identity groups (Cheney, 2012). In regards to institutional oppression, oppressive consequences such as classism, prejudice and discrimination are typically attributed to institutional laws, customs, or practices. Internalized oppression is internalized oppression is the

Racism is the belief that a certain race is inferior or superior to other races or one particular race. The most common conception of racism can date back to the early Middle Ages in Europe. This was the time period in which white Europeans were beginning to come into contact with darker skinned Africans, Asians, and Native Americans. In 1492, a Spanish explorer sailed to islands off the coast of the United States and later many other Spanish and European explorers would travel on the East Coast of the country. At this point in time, historians estimate there were 10 million Native Americans living in the United States. The Native Americans were quickly wiped out by European American settlers that killed them in war, murder or with their unfamiliar diseases, such as smallpox. By 1990, there was less than 300,000 Native Americans still living in the United States. The Europeans viewed these people as savages and felt entitled to the land that the indigenous people once knew as their home. The Europeans were also on a hunt for

In northwest Spain, bombs were dropped on Guernica, a small Basque market town by the German air force. This caused the Spanish Civil war from 1936 to 1939. The bombing lasted three and a half hours killing hundreds of people. While in Paris, news of the bombing in his country reached Pablo Picasso and he was devastated. This event became an inspiration to him to paint a huge mural that was called Guernica, and becomes the most memorable anti war image in the twentieth century.

The Guernica is probably Pablo Picasso's most famous work. It is a painting that expresses his most influential political statements. It is about his personal reaction to the Nazi's casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish civil war. "The Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. This work has gained a monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies

Picasso’s “Guernica” helped change our view on how the atrocities of war from unjust reasoning effect society. For instance, by using larger than average size for a painting at the time and since his work still to this day inspires deep thought. The year was 1937 and the World’s Fair had just requested Pablo Picasso a highly skillful and renowned artist to commission an antiwar painting that depicted the bombing and senseless deaths of two thousand citizens in Guernica, Spain. Picasso accepted their offer and immediately began creating hundreds of rough drafts depicting the small town in Spain he loved so much. Later that same year at the World’s Fair in Paris, France Guernica’s enormous size of eleven feet tall by twenty feet wide immersed

There have been countless interpretations of the motifs within Pablo Picasso’s Guernica since it was first exhibited in July of 1937 at the Paris International Exposition. Initially, the painting was not well received by critics. It was presumably destined to collect dust at the back of Picasso’s studio. However, after the events of the Second World War, the imagery represented within Guernica became painfully familiar. Its macabre elements strongly resonated with people from around the globe, and the appalling atrocities suffered by many communities worldwide became synonymous with both the painting and the town of Geurnica itself. His stylistic choices, the use of geometric shapes and the mural’s strong symbolism have contributed to its moving

Presumably Picasso's most renowned work, Guernica is likely his most intense political explanation, painted as a quick response to the Nazi's overwhelming easygoing besieging hone on the Basque town of Guernica amid Spanish Common War. About the photo Pablo Picasso says: "My entire life as a craftsman has been just a persistent battle against response and the demise of art. In the photo I am painting — which I should call Guernica — I am communicating my loathsomeness of the military standing which is presently ravaging Spain into a sea of hopelessness and demise." In Guernica, we see a few casualties of the besieging - some as yet living, some officially dead. The figure to one side is a mother gripping an infant who seems to have kicked the

The first piece of artwork I would like to talk about from Picasso is one that many people may be familiar with and has the name “Guernica”. This work was created in Picasso’s Paris studio in 1937 ("Guernica: Testimony of War”). This piece in an oil on canvas painting, and currently is on display at Spain’s national museum, Reina Sofía, a museum of modern art. The entire painting is twenty-five foot, five and three-quarter inches long and eleven foot, five and a half inches tall. This painting depicts a horror that happened in Guernica, Spain on April 28, 1937. The city was bombed for about three hours and no apparent reasoning was behind it. The painting has recognizable faces on many of the objects here. To the right of the painting

The great impact of Guernica had was due in part to its monumental size and its powerful political statement. After many sketches, Picasso painted this masterpiece with oil on canvas in 1937. It is a mural sized painting that is a visual response to the massacre at Guernica. Hitler was in favor of Francisco Franco, who was attempting to overthrow the democratic Republican government in Spain in the Spanish Civil War that began in 1936. Hitler decides to bomb the city of Guernica as a new war tactic to evoke fear and intimidate his opponents. This painting is a direct response to the Nazi’s bombing of Guernica, a town in Northern Spain, in 1937. Since this city was of no significance or military value, many innocent

Throughout history, art has been a powerful medium for political expression. Strong, moving images create a visual experience that calls for global attention to a cause. One of the most famous examples of using art to bring the world’s focus to a cause is Pablo Picasso’s painting, Guernica. In 1937, Francisco Franco, the ruler of Spain, allowed German and Italian planes to bomb a small town, called Guernica, in order to test their bombing tactics. Guernica became the result of Picasso’s outrage to the aerial attacks. Within the painting, he crafts symbols to represent the horror brought to the town of Guernica by the government. Picasso uses different art principles and elements to show the brutalization and chaos caused by Franco’s

Hitler supported Franco but artist like Picasso and Dahli supported the republicans. Then in 1937 a small city in Spain named Guernica was bombed and it caused it stir amongst artists. As a result of the bombing Picasso created his oil painting, Guernica, in 1937. This painting was a representation of what Picasso was probably reading in the newspaper while in Paris. Its monochromatic, black and white color scheme can be compared to a newspaper. The viewer can read the painter from left to right or vice versa. The painting uses symbolism like the bull to represent Spain and the horse falling apart represents dismemberment. Picasso depicts the horrors of the event as people flee from a burning building and a mother holding on to her dead child screams in agony. What made this piece important was Piccaso’s use of his cubist style to voice his political opinion. He made it clear which side he was on and the discontent he held for the misfortune his home faced. The painting was put on tour as a fundraising event that only charged a pair of boots for entry. These boots were then sent to republican soldiers. This was something Pablo Picasso had never done before making this work

In January 1937, Pablo Picasso accepted the commission for a 25 foot long mural for the Spanish pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (Borja-Villel et al., 2010). This exposition was a creation of the Spanish Government in exile, at the time of the Civil War. Therefore it was imbued with political and diplomatic meanings and served as propaganda for the Republican Government (Borja-Villel et al., 2010). The subject matter of the painting is the attack on the Basque town of Guernica by German planes (Borja-Villel et al., 2010). However, this event per se is not what is highlighted in the painting. Picasso used this scene to demonstrate his personal rejection of war and, taking this further, to demonstrate to the world the costly struggle by the Spanish people in search for freedom (Borja-Villel et al., 2010; Corbin, 1999). As a result, Guernica became to be a worldwide icon for political protest (Kopper, 2014). The

Years ago, this disbursing and confusing picture created in 1937 by Picasso titled the Guernica was an painting that was against war. Picasso would use his artistic talent and the contrast of light and dark to Evoke confusion when someone first glanced at it and possibly took a few times for the viewer in the past and currently to understand what the symbols could possibly mean.

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in tribute to the bombing of the city, Guernica, Spain by Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Picasso portrayed the painting in white, gray and black to not distract or take away from the paintings meaning and show the seriousness of the event. I do not believe that Picasso represented the actual event in the painting but more of his subjective view of the suffering and terror that was invoked onto the citizens of Guernica by this aerial attack.