Research Paper On Guernica

During the Spanish Civil War, German tested their bombs for warfare on a town called Guernica. It was in the province of Biscay in Basque Country in Pablo Picasso’s home country. The oil work, Guernica, was Picasso’s reaction to how he felt about the bombing and shows dismemberment and pain. It is art about the tragedies of war, especially on civilians. This anti-war symbol helped bring the Spanish Civil War more attention. The lack of color seems to make the work more dramatic. According to Picasso the bull meant brutality and darkness while the horse the people of the town. This artwork should be classified as one of the most famous political protest

How does Pablo Picasso’s famous art “Guernica’ represents the history and society in his time?

     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 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.

Another powerful and political piece of art is Picaso's Guernica. Painted after the bombing of the Basque town of the same name, Guernica reveals the horrors of war, and the anguish and chaos that war creates. The piece demonstrates how art can open our eyes to the cruelty of the world. Allison writes, “art should provoke more questions than answers and, most of all, should make us think about what we rarely want to think about at

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.

Picasso could be considered a founding father of modern art. Ranging from cubism to El Greco-like figures, Picasso constantly tried new techniques. He did not want to keep the same style for long. "Guernica" portrays Picasso's view of the small Basque town of Guernica. During the Spanish civil war, dictator Francisco Franco hired the Nazi Luftwaffe to bomb the town. Over the course of three hours, warplanes dropped bombs on the town, killing 2,000 civilians and wounding thousands more. This horrific event is shown through Picasso's eyes in the 25 foot wide and 11 foot high mural. It shows how artists' new freedom allowed them to call attention to events like never

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.

Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, on October 25th, 1881. In his life, he had many jobs: poet, stage designer, ceramicist, printmaker, sculptor, and most famously, a painter. Many even consider him to be one of the most influential Spanish artists of the twentieth century. One reason for this is his ability to change artistic styles when painting. This led to varied works of art whenever he worked. He did this until the turn of the 20th century, when moved to Paris, France to open his own studio. Here, he felt lonely and depressed, and it definitely showed in his paintings of poverty, anger, and isolation. After 1905, he had mostly overcome this depression and most of his paintings showed warm colors such as red and pink. However, this would not last. At the time of World War I, Picasso started to go back into his more depressing art. This leads to the painting that we are going to talk about: the Guernica.

Pablo created more than 20,000 painting/ drawings, sculptures, ceramics and other artworks. during the period of 1910- 1920 when Picasso and Braque were laying the foundation for cubism in France this inspired the styles of futurism, dada and constructivism in other countries. Picasso’s most famous work, Guernica is the most powerful political statement, painted in reaction to the nazis devastating bomb practice on the Basque town of Guernica during Spanish civil war. Guernica shows the pain and suffering throughout the war, the painting was displayed around tour of the world, so the tour helped people come together after the effects of the Spanish civil war in an attempt to draw in the worlds

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.

“Guernica” was painted on a canvas with oil by Pablo Ruiz Picasso in 1937. He was inspired by the experimental bombing of Guernica in Spain by the Germans during the Spanish Civil War. The Reina Sofia National Art Museum is the current home of this famous anti-war painting.

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.

in the painting. The longer you admire Guernica it makes you question what favorable outcomes

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