Pablo Picasso's Guernica (Lavender Mist)

In the video “The Power of Art – Picasso,” the life and art of the Famous Artist Pablo Picasso is explained and the specifically his piece, Guernica, is focused on. This video starts off by giving the viewer background about who Picasso was and his early life. Next, the political events of his time are explained. Lastly, the influences for his Painting Guernica is explained and the painting itself is described and clarified. I have always heard a lot about Picasso and seen him mentioned everywhere, but I never learned much about him or his artwork so I was very interested in watching this video about him. After watching this, I have gained a lot of respect and appreciation for the artist, Pablo Picasso and his work.

The painting was 11 x 25 feet. Picasso, a Spaniard himself, was commissioned by the Spanish government to paint a mural for the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World’s Fair in 1937. Picasso put off painting the mural for the government when he learned of a bombing in Guernica, Spain. German Nazis bombed the country village Guernica in Spain in1937. The Germans did not drop the bombs for military engagement; they did it for a test.

     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

“Guernica” is named after a village in Spain. In 1937, Picasso got his inspiration for creating this painting after Guernica was bombed by German and Italian planes. Thousands of deadly bombs were dropped over Guernica that left this small village in ruins. Thousands of people were killed and injured. And the fires created by the bombs destroyed 70 percent of Guernica.

Art forms using the technique of painting have evolved throughout history, specifically when female painters became noticed for their success. From the art of the Renaissance style in the 17th century to early 20th century Modernism, there have been eight large art movements to compare painting expansions: Baroque, Neoclassicism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Geometric Abstraction and Surrealism. While these eight movements play off of one another in technique, each reflects its own style using the previous movement as a way to advance the art form as a whole.

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.

Guernica was created by Pablo Picasso in 1937. The Spainsh Civil war is the cause of making Guernica. The Basque Country village in northern Spain is were the bombing took place, government warplanes is how the German and Italy destroyed the area. The German bombers were supposedly affiliated with National forces and General Franco during the war. Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica uniquely executed showing innocent people suffering during the bombing.

Art has been a part of history before Christ was born and along the flow of time different styles and movements revolutionized what art means to the creator and audience. On the flow of time one of the branches that stood out in style, color, and expression through repetition was Impressionism. An artist that helped revolutionize Impressionism in his time was Oscar-Claude Monet, but the piece that stood out was the “Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur.”

For this project I will be going over the medium for Guernica by Pablo Picasso. The medium means the tools and paints used to create the artwork for this particular piece, it also has to do with the technique on how to construct this painting. But first, let me give you a little background of this symbolic painting. Pablo Picasso created this painting in reaction to the aerial bombing over Guernica, Spain by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War back in 1937. After this tragedy, the Spanish Republic asked Picasso to paint a large mural about the bombing for display at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. Guernica was painted in remembrance to show the catastrophe of war as well as the anguish and destruction it inflicted on the people of Spain, especially the innocent civilians. The encompassing scenario is set within a room where, in an empty part on the left, a wide eyed bull looms above a woman grieving for a dead child she is holding. The middle of the painting shows a falling over in pain, having been pierced by a spear or lance. One of the focal points of this piece is the gaping wound in the side of the horse After it was completed, Guernica was exhibited to the world during a limited tour, receiving large amounts of recognition and becoming quite famous. This power piece obtain much exposure bring the Spanish Civil War to the world’s awareness. The colors for the painting are black, white, and grey. It is also done with oil paints on an eleven feet tall

The Impressionism movement in art was followed by the Realism and Romantic periods. In complete contrast to Realism and Romanticism, with its detailed, accurate and photo-like paintings of contemporary life, Impressionism brought about more of a blurred reality to the canvas. Specific techniques Impressionist artists used were unblended colors and quick, short brush strokes with a unique play on light. An Impressionist artists' goal was to "objectively paint reality in terms of transient effects of light and color."(1) The Impressionist artist would place vibrantly contrasting colors directly on the canvas; which was a great contrast to the traditional art of blending somber colors. Not understanding, or accepting these new techniques, the Salon of the French Academy consistently rejected most artwork by Impressionist artist. These rejections from the Salon eventually forced a group of Impressionist painters to organize their own exhibitions; Exhibitions of the Independent Artists.

Numerous aspects of the painting clearly portray Picasso’s feelings about the war, specifically the bombing on the village of Guernica. The symbolism is difficult to deny, even with the abstractness of the painting. Individuals in the painting can be seen with mangles bodies, reflecting what occurred during the bombing of Guernica. There is a man in the painting lying upwards that appears dead and has a detached arm. Around him there are other wounded with pained and tortured expressions of their faces. A woman can be seen clutching a lifeless body, her face expressing immense grief. Many people were wounded and killed by the bombings. There is another person in the painting with his arms out and a leg dragging. His

In Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica, which he created in response to the bombing of Guernica, Spain, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, he portrays the tragedy of war. In the painting, there is a man on the left with his arms reaching up and his head looking towards the sky. There is also a woman on the left of the painting looking up with a look of terror on her face. These two seem to be innocent civilians whose lives have been changed forever by the terrible effects of the bombing. In the top-middle of the painting there is a light fixture of sorts that looks like the Sun with a light bulb inside of it. There are also spikes coming out of the light. I think the light itself symbolizes a bomb and the spikes are the shrapnel that gets

What happened throughout the 20th century in the post impressionist era of art is artists going wild and exploring how wide Art can actually be. Beforehand Art was either marble statues or Realistic Oil paintings (even watercolours were looked down upon) but because of the (sometimes insane) things artists did throughout the 20th century, including cubism, we have reached a point where you don't have to worry about people telling you that what you make is not art, it can't be art because it

Home to those who opposed the forces of fascist general Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, Guernica symbolized the origin of the resistance against the Nationalists, and was therefore allowed by Franco to become the bombing site for a Nazi airstrike. Guernica’s main plaza, filled to the brim with people shopping on a market day, was completely obliterated, as approximately a hundred-thousand pounds of explosives rained down upon it—resulting in the deaths of nearly two-thousand innocent Spanish citizens. Though this catastrophic event is regarded by many to be the very first civilian-targeted airstrike in history, it is better remembered largely in part due to Pablo Picasso. After receiving the news of the atrocity, Picasso was so overwhelmed with a sense of disgust that he decided to create a mural-length painting depicting the aftermath of the bombing, which he then simply titled

“Guernica” is one of the most well-known paintings in the world. It was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937. The painting itself measures 11ftx 26.5ft. “Guernica” depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica during the Spanish civil war. The whole thing is done in a cubist style not surprising since Picasso is known for his cubism. In the painting there are people and animals alike all of them in pain and or suffering. “Guernica” is also filled with symbolism that Picasso incorporated into it, and hidden messages. The painting is also colorless it only uses black, white and, gray.