Guernica

Analysis essay “Guernica”   By Izzi El-ali

Pablo Picasso was born 25th of October 1881 in Malaga, Spain until he died on the 8th of April 1973, aged 91, as famously known from his paintings, drawings, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.
One of Picasso's famous artworks is called “Guernica”, his most powerful political statement. Picasso painted the Guernica in just three weeks just over the hearing of the bombing of the town of Guernica during the war in 1937. Picasso's Guernica is a huge mural on canvas in black, white and grey which was created for the Spanish Pavilion. In Guernica, Picasso used symbolic forms, that are repeatedly found in his work.
The painting was painted as a immediate reaction of the devastating casual bombing practice on the towns of Guernica during spainsh civil war.
Pablo's artwork of “Guernica,” shows the violence and suffering in the civil war in each individual, especially the innocent civilians. The painting reminds us of the suffering, tragedies of war, and symbols.

“Guernica” was displayed for everyone to see and an idea of what had happen during the civil war, this became famous and brought more attention to the worldwide.  
Picasso was an impressionist painter. His father was a painter and an art teacher, he was encouraged by him to paint. During his whole life, Picasso created 20,000 artworks and sculptures and the Guernica was one of them.  

Guernica was a form of cubism, there are different types of lines for detail and it creates shape. Picasso uses formal art elements in Guernica to create a still life image. The symbolism he used includes a dying horse, a woman caught in a burning building, and an anguished mother with a dead child, the light bulb and the sun.
The painting uses black, white and grey to express pain and chaos. The black and grey tone in areas of almost flat colour ans repeated shapes (example the eye and the sun) and patterns (the horses hair) all those techniques help to focus the viewers...