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Cubism In Picasso's Guernica By Pablo Picasso

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In the very outstanding and calm Reina Sofia museum in Madrid , rests the most chaotic and heartbreaking masterpiece : Guernica by Picasso . Pablo Picasso was one of the creator of a major artistic movement of the twentieth century: Cubism. It consists in drawing the topics in simple geometrical broken-up shapes and reassembled in a very abstract way .
This oil on canvas painting was made in 1937. During that period of time, the Republican government was in power. Spain then experienced a civil war between the government and Franco 's troops who wanted to install a dictatorship .
After the german raid of Guernica on a market day , that had for main goal to try new weapons, Picasso felt the need to respond to this historical event . He wanted to denounce the horrors of conflict and war , especially when the victims are civilians.
The painting shows a group of people and animals in an enclosed space .Guernica can be described from left to right: first we …show more content…

Guernica ( 752 x 351 cm ) is a tremendous painting made on a big canvas , to show the gravity of the situation that is becoming more and more important and urgent to handle .
The painting is structured in a triangular shape that goes from the torch to the corners of the painting . This structure is far from being hazardous, the three sides of the triangle represent the three protagonists in this war : the author with the figure of the torch that lightens up the mind of people and raises awareness , Franco: represented by the figure of the cut hand ,and finally the wounded civilians that are laying in the floor . The imposing minautaure is one of the first components that we notice . His sharp horns and his evil face are synonym of the cruelty and the horror .To show their importance , Picasso put all his characters in the first

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