Guernica

                              GUERNICA

As a conclusion of the topic about Picasso I decided to write about Guernica. It's a painting which Pablo painted in 1937 and now it's known at the global scale. It's probably one of the most famous paintings of Picasso. It is 349 cm high and 776 cm wide, so it's more like a mural painting but it's not on the wall but on a huge canvas. The whole process of creating was documented by a photographer who he dated then, Dora Maar. It can be know admired in the National Museum of Art in Madrid with her photos.

The history of the masterpiece refers to the bomb that was dropped at a village in the North of Spain, Guernica. It caused a lot of damage including killing many civils. This was actually the first time when the artist painted something as a reaction to a political problem. Guernica shows the tragedy of war and suffering of the innocent. We can see there, in the left corner a p crying mother caring dead body of a child in her arms, people screaming and burning. Some of them has their limbs cut off. It all shows sadness, misery and pain which is combained with war.

The painter didn't use any bright colours, just black, white and grey. I think he did it on purpose. Even without the colours it shows emotions vividly.

I really like this painting of Picasso and that's why I wrote about it.

sources:

https://artsintherightplace.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/guernica.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)