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    that they feel are important. The artist paints to show the world many different sides of human culture as well as current events. For example, Pablo Picasso painted a painting named Guernica which symbolized the horrors of war and as a result, has become an anti-war symbol. He was protesting the bombing of Guernica. On the far left is a woman, head back, screaming in pain and grief, holding the lifeless body of her dead child. This is one of the most devastating and unforgettable images in the painting

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    Guernica's History Essay

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    Guernica's History The word art is an encompassing one, vastly interpreted and with multiple definitions. In the case of Picasso's painting Guernica, art informs, educates and expresses. Its power lies in its ability to capture and compel an audience nearly six decades after the modern world's "other" day of infamy. To understand fully the painting that evolved out of the Spanish painter's outrage, one must know its context. "Why do you think I date everything I do? Because it is not sufficient

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    Good morning year 12, today I will be explaining how the artwork Guernica by Pablo Picasso is a suitable related text for the text Away by Michael Gow. Sudden discovery challenge our initial views as they demonstrate different unpredictable discoveries by confronting individuals’ personal values. The nature of discovery can affect an individual’s perception of their surrounding environment. Due to abrupt change contextual values challenge our beliefs system. The play Away by Michael Gow, 1986 explores

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    “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

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    The Rape of the Sabine Women Pablo Picasso’s art piece “The Rape of the Sabine Women” is an art executed from the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The artwork primarily captures the conflict between the west and the east and more so the prevailing threat and acts of inhumanity in the third world war era. The first painting in the series dated 24 October 1962 (Picasso, Beechey and Stephens 76) took place just ten days after the recording of Soviet missiles by American planes in Cuba. The art, therefore

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    relating to the chaos and aftermath of war is called ‘Guernica’. Through its historical context, style and composition, and subject matter, ‘Guernica’, which arguably his most famous and well-known artwork, is an excellent exemplar that demonstrates art’s capacity for influencing and connecting to the minds and feelings of individuals, and

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    Pablo Picasso a famous Spanish artist, painted a piece that is breath taking, the Guernica. It was painted as a reaction to the aerial bombing of Guernica, Spain by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War in 1937.The artwork shows tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicted upon innocent civilians, and animals. The grey, black, and white mural-size canvas painted in oil stood 11 ft tall and 25.6 wide, the acceptable size to tell a story that needed to be heard. The cinematic impact

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    am painting — which I shall call Guernica — I am expressing my horror of the military caste which is now plundering Spain into an ocean of misery and death." (Pablo Picasso) Pablo Picasso's mural, "Guernica" (1937), is difficult to classify into one modern art category, because it seems to be both a movement of its own category, and also of multiple modern movements simultaneously. Picasso adds his own unique interpretation of each modern art movement to Guernica along with older influences that

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    Knowledge is the understanding of something such as facts, information or descriptions. Many might say that we acquire knowledge through experience which is true however, a combination of stories and facts play a major role in gaining knowledge. A fact is a statement that is true and can be proven through experimentation. Stories on the other hand are accounts of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment. One area of knowledge which mainly consists of facts but takes the form of

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