I’m getting beyond surface appearances, to the core.<\/em><\/p>Pablo Picasso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nGeorges Braque and Pablo Picasso invented Cubism.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhat did you catch from your first glance? If you are unsure what you will say, it is normal because this painting is like solving a puzzle or making it from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pyramid of writhing bodies, the wounded horse, the massive bull, the candlelight bearer, dead babies, distraught mothers, a single daisy, unmistakable puncture mark on the fallen warrior’s hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Before, We mentioned that the bombs destroyed the city, and everything became unclear, and also we said Cubism gives new forms to the object. In fact, with this unfortunate event, Guernica has changed in conditions just like Cubism.<\/strong>\n\nThat is to say, Guernica had gone Cubist!<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nGUERNICA ANALYSIS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Now that we know its story and movement, it is time to examine it in detail. You are in front of the overwhelming canvas, and you feel like it wraps around you, immerses you. Later, You start to think, what is all the meaning of these larger-than-life figures, and what does Picasso want to tell us with this painting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\nFirstly, since it emphasizes the Civilians’ suffering, Guernica is black and white. Pablo Picasso pictures Guernica as a night massacre, even though it was actually dead in the afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, here, we are looking into a closed space like a room. We can guess from the door on the right of the painting. TIn addition, here, we are looking into a closed space like a room. We can guess from the door on the right of the painting. There are loads of puzzle-like figures waiting to be life-like to illustrate, a pyramid of writhing bodies, the wounded horse, the massive bull, the candlelight bearer, dead babies, distraught mothers, and a single daisy unmistakable puncture mark on the fallen warrior’s hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hand or Plane?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n In the first place, a woman, kneeling with arms outstretched, right in front of the door seems to escape from flames. According to us, if you look carefully at her right-hand looks like a plane. This reference is made directly to the planes bombing the city. Right above the woman, the window was placed, and who knows if it is a glimmer of hope or not? However, flames lick through the window in front of the figure, suggesting that the rest of the town is also under attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detail of the woman with her right-hand looks like a plane. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAn Important Cultural Symbol of Spain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n On the left of the painting, there is a massive bull. The bull usually signifies strength, and the bull or minotaur is a motif that the artist used many times in his work. Back then, Picasso witnessed the bulls’ suffering during the bullfight in his childhood, and later this pain found a place in Guernica. When looked carefully, another bull is located right behind this bull, attacking the horse. There is a pigeon between the bull and the horse also. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The massive bull figure detail in Guernica.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhen you look at the bull’s tail is unclear whether the bull is twitching its tail or whether the tail is actually on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Troubled Mother and Child<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Below the giant bull, we see a troubled mother figure carrying her child in her arms. The disjointed style of the woman’s face conveys an impression of deep anguish. Her head is thrown back in a scream of despair, and Picasso has painted a spike for her tongue, a shape that expresses the most genuine form of her pain. Some associate this description of mother and child with Mary and child Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The troubled mother and her child detail in Guernica.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nFloating Female Flies Through <\/h3>\n\n\n\n The center of the painting is a person who seeps like smoke carrying a candle, and we can think of the city’s resistance, which will soon get obscure. This floating woman, whose style is reminiscent of Picasso’s surrealist work, could be bringing enlightenment to the scene. Yet her candle flame is next to the electric lightbulb, drawing attention to the significance of these juxtaposed symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The floating detail in Guernica.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Single Bulb Electric Light<\/h3>\n\n\n\n The light source above the horse caused a lot of discussions. Some say it is like an eye; others say it is in the form of a bomb and refers to bombs rained on the city. In addition, its glow has a jagged edge and suggests a burst of light, surely a reference to the incendiary bombs that fell on Guernica. The light also resembles a colossal eye that observes everything, perhaps a symbol of the all-seeing eye of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The single bulb detail in Guernica.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Wounded Horse<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Another intriguing figure in Guernica is the wounded horse. The contorted head and neck of the horse form a dramatic image of panic. There is a spear stuck in its body. The horse may represent the civilians who were hit by deadly and their suffering. In fact, when asked for his interpretations of the images in the painting, Picasso said that the shrieking horse represented innocent people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The wounded horse figure in Guernica.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nFallen Soldier<\/h3>\n\n\n\n We see an arm holding a broken sword below the wounded horse, and the broken sword is a direct reference to death. The struggle is over, and death has prevailed. But you need to look carefully. There is a fainted flower above the hand, and it is one of the symbols of hope which is rare on the canvas. This flower bloomed on death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The broken sword detail in Guernica.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nBelow the mother and dead child, there is an unmistakable puncture mark on the fallen warrior’s hand. Perhaps the most challenging image to interpret is the fallen soldier in the foreground. In his dismembered hand, he holds a broken sword, and a single, delicately drawn flower appears to be growing there; it might signify the faintest glimmer of hope. Some associate this mark with the stigmata of the martyred Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The detail of the puncture mark on the fallen warrior’s hand<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWell, what brought this into Picasso’s head? <\/h4>\n\n\n\n What was in Picasso’s head now was one more indelible image of the agony of his nation. And one which every Spaniard would have known, Goya’s May 3, 1808. The defiant rebel’s arms flung wide like the crucified Christ and the stigmata appearing on his opened palm in one of Goya’s masterpieces. Specialists consider that Goya’s painting of May 3 inspired Picasso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To emphasize the focal points of light shadow contrast in the picture, we know that it highlights the beauty and adds a noble air to the figures. But in this case, the areas illuminated in these two pictures are directly related to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THE HIDDEN MESSAGGE IN GUERNICA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Picasso has approved none of the messages we have given above. In fact, Picasso, who was naturally approached for an explanation, said, “This bull is a bull, and this horse is a horse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings, it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got, I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are,” Picasso added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nGUERNICA PAINTING SO FAMOUS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n A Cubist commotion, yet also a classical monument! Displaying everybody’s known fact, drawing you in at first glance, every precise detail, having a strong statement against war, and last but not least, growing to stand for war atrocities experienced worldwide make Guernica such a famous painting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
WHERE IS GUERNICA NOW?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Guernica does not create the impact that Picasso anticipated at the 1937 Paris world fair. Perhaps people who were hesitant to talk about a painting that he made with a political theme might have perceived it this way. Two years after Guernica, Franco was victorious in Spain, and fascism eviscerated Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1944, after four years of a grueling war, Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation, and Picasso was free to meet an adoring public. And how they flocked to the studio, craving for stories about Guernica’s creation. Picasso once described the creative process as a kind of complete emptying. He’d put so much of everything he had to offer to the world into Guernica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In 1981, with Franco dead and democracy at last alive, Guernica found its way home to Spain. But, unfortunately, Picasso never witnessed its return, having died eight years before.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nToday<\/em>, Guernica is hanging on the Reina Sofia Museum’s wall<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nA MIRROR OF THE SUFFERING OF CIVILIANS! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n As early as 1939, when World War II broke out, he was surveilled by Nazis, due at least in part to Guernica’s resounding message. It’s said that a Nazi soldier once visited Picasso’s Paris studio, pointed to the reproduction of Guernica on the wall, and asked the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Did you do this?” he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
”Oh, no,” says Picasso. ”You did.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
”Go on, take one. Souvenir”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a remarkable comeback, isn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWHAT CAN ART DO WHEN DID THE BOMBS START DROPPING? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n It can instruct us on the obligations of being human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In all the ways that counted,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Picasso had won, art had won, humanity had won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSo here we finished examining Guernica, one of the most known symbols of anti-war. It was not for those who wanted something easy on the eye! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this moment, finishing with his quotes; <\/p>\n\n\n\n
”Painting is not there merely to decorate the walls of flats. It is a means of waging offensive and defensive war against the enemy.”<\/p>Pablo Picasso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nLast but not least, if you are intrigued by art, we will have a blast seeing you here. \u0131 hope every art-related thing will find you. Hope to see you in our following review ????????\u270c <\/p>\n\n\n\n