The first painting in consideration is Picasso’s 1937 oil painting‚ “Guernica.” Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish republican government‚ to paint a piece for the 1937’s world fair. Picasso’s piece was the cubism work‚ Guernica‚ an anti-war painting in response to the bombings of Guernica the 26th of April 1937. Deciphering this piece is not an easy feat‚ the black and white and gray colors give off a gloomy feel‚ death and commotion are apparent in this painting. The space is compressed and
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self-awareness and emotions. It allows us to express our imagination and human creative skills. Art grants us a distinct insight into our history. Pablo Picasso is one of the most profound artist of the twentieth century‚ but was deeply rooted in the art of the past. Guernica is powerful because of color and lighting‚ symbolism‚ and use of line. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25‚ in Malaga‚ Spain‚ in 1881. His full name is Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano
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its symbolism‚ Picasso said‚ "It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them It is interesting to note that when Guernica was first displayed in spain it had little impact ‚ it was only on its tour of the world that it started to become a symbol rebuking war. This implies that Guernica was not necessarily significant to Picassos artistic career
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The Spanish painter Picasso was a cubist and his worldwide famous ‘Guernica’ is a mural-sized flat oil painting on canvas (3.5 metres tall and 7.8 metres wide). It is all greys‚ blacks and whites and was painted in 1937. Picasso started the painting when he heard that the Germans had just bombed the quiet and traditional Basque town of Guernica on 26 April 1937 in support of the Spanish Nationalist forces of the Fascist General Franco during the Spanish Civil War. The broken sword near the bottom
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During the early 1900’s‚ in the times of World War I‚ Spain had been under the rule of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Primo de Rivera went into power on September 13‚ 1923‚ and his dictatorship lasted for seven years‚ until his death in 1930. (Shlomo 65) And‚ in 1931‚ Spain “attempted to establish a parliamentary republic whose governments would reflect the outcomes of honest election.” (Jackson 272) And‚ through this republic‚ the government tried to establish democratic reforms to help the county deal
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Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter‚ sculptor‚ printmaker‚ ceramicist and a stage designer. Picasso was the most influential artist of the twentieth century and saw himself as a painter even though he sculpted as well. He has created many paintings‚ such as The Old Guitarist‚ The Weeping Woman‚ and Ma Jolie. Picasso’s paintings vary between symbolism‚ surrealism‚ and cubism. For example‚ Picasso’s oil painting‚ Guernica‚ was one of his masterpieces that uses symbolism. Guernica is a town in
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Critical Analysis of Guernica - By Bryce Craig Spanish artist Pablo Picasso can often be collectively seen as the greatest and most influential artist of the twentieth century. In a historical sense he encompassed all that is to be a practicing modernist artist and prevailed as one of the most significant artists overall in human history. Picasso’s most well renowned painting presents to his audience a graphic reflection of the horrors and brutality of war; Guernica (1937) depicts the Spanish
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Guernica by Pablo Picasso is an immediate response of an artist to an inhuman act of bombarding the Basque capital by German Nazis. The fact that this art piece relates to a real event in the history emphasizes its importance and the message it conveys. Picasso used a lot of symbols to convey the message hidden behind his art. One of the symbol is the electric light bulb which shines on the figures in the painting. The electric light bulb has a shape of an eye and it symbolizes that the world is
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Picasso ’s "Guernica" (1937) and Goya ’s "The Third of May" (1814) are paintings that are created to communicate an issue of concern of the artist. In order to truly understand the impact that these paintings have on people‚ and why that impact is so strong‚ a person must analyse the content of them. The first reaction of the "Guernica" by Picasso is one of mayhem‚ destruction‚ lost souls and death. The entire painting is dark with cool colours and no sign of warmth. There are scattered distorted
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Guernica Art has provided pleasure to many people all over the world. From Notre Dame in Paris‚ to a child’s scribbles‚ art is all around us. With so many forms of art‚ we have to make sure that the way in which we judge art is concise. This guideline is called criteria‚ and it can be interpreted and translated as a way to judge every type of art. I have chosen to judge a painting‚ and after careful consideration‚ I have picked out three criterion I find are best used when judging this type
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