Discussion / Picasso’s Guernica

Do some research on Pablo Picasso and his painting, Guernica.

Share with the class in this discussion any information, reviews, critiques about this iconic painting of the 20th century. Do a search on the internet for anything pertaining to this painting.

Example: 

Picasso’s Guernica  , by Pablo Picasso, 1937. See Below:

This image is of a drawing, painting, print, or other two-dimensional work of art, and the copyrightfor it is most likely owned by either the artist who produced the image, the person who commissioned the work, or their heirs. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of works of art

• for critical commentary on
  • the work in question,
  • the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or
  • the school to which the artist belongs
• on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/early-abstraction/cubism/a/picasso-guernica

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/zeliart102/chapter/picasso-guernica/

This picture has stood for a testament against the bombing of civilians by the German airforce. Before this time, all decent civilized peoples followed a general rule of fighting soldiers. Civilians were considered out of bounds, and honor was seen as a military code, which included not harming women ; and children whenever possible.

The Germans broke that code, and became known as truly evil in their attempt to destroy civilization. Picasso’s picture uses symbols, black and white values; and a surreal distortion of the figures in announcing the horror of this type of warfare.

Mr. S.