Guernica Essays

In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, oil on canvas. The Republican Spanish government authorized the wall painting for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica is a huge painting, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was put at the passageway to Spain’s structure. Picasso didn’t do any work subsequent to accepting the commission until perusing of the shelling of the Basque town of Guernica, in Spain. It was that assault, executed by the German Luftwaffe, that roused him....

Pablo Picasso and his work on emotions? Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Picasso is credited, along with Georges Braque, with the creation of Cubism. “Picasso believed Art to the son of Sadness and Suffering… that sadness lent itself to meditation and that suffering was fundamental to life… If we demand sincerity of an artist, we must remember that sincerity is...

The two art pieces are historically rich in the reasons behind the painting, the reasons within the paintings, and how the paintings affect the societies where they were painted and across the world. Francisco Goya Francisco Goya Francisco de Goya was born on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, Spain. He began painting as a teenager, he went to Rome and Italy to further his artistic studies throughout his lifetime. He spent some years of childhood in Saragossa, that is where...

Write a political analysis of a popular cultural artefact (TV series, film, book, play, sculpture, meme). In contemporary society, popular culture can be an object of collective social, economic and political expression. Street (1997, p. 7) acknowledges popular culture as a mass-produced artefact and ‘made available to a large number of individuals’ such as music, art, films and clothing. Popular culture practices are essential as communicative applicators to how meaning is challenged and circulated. In which, their social and cultural...

Artists create new ways of seeing and representing the world through visual perception by defying key features of conventionalism. Artists such as Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) and Wifredo Lam (1902 – 1982) were central contributors to the unconventional art world throughout the 1900s. Pablo Picasso’s oil painting, ‘Guernica’ (1937), is a politically oriented cubist painting highlighting the artist’s immediate response to the Spanish Nationalist, Fascist Italian, and Nazi German Luftwaffe bombings on Guernica (Northern Spain). Wifredo Lam’s gouache painting,...