2006-06-22 09:34:48 · 7 answers · asked by kuzman86 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
I hope titles are right.
2006-06-22 09:35:44 · update #1
Guernica is the name of a town bombed during the Spanish Civil War, which inspired Picasso to paint the famous painting of the massacre.
Galatea in Rafael's painting is taken from ancient Greek mythology. Galatea was one of the Nereids, nymphs of the sea, like mermaids.
She's very beautiful, isn't she? :-)
2006-06-23 01:25:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hi! I'm from the Basque Country and Gernica is a little town and the painting rememorates the bomb launching over this little town. The bombs where launched by germans over this fishing workers town as a demostration of their war power. Picasso pints this draw as a public cry asking for justice and to let the world know what kind of disaster the germans maid.
Today Gernika is a beautifull litlle coaster town where the peace and the friendship feels in the streets, but with a very deep remember of the past injustice.
I invite everyone to visit the town and to walk around the duck and the old part.
2006-06-23 02:15:45 · answer #2 · answered by Guillermo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guernica was a Spanish Village that was bombed by the Germans. Picasso showed his vision of it in his black and white painting, which was damaged with acid. What is shown is a photographic reproduction. Galatea is a Greek Nymph painted by Raphael Sanzio.
2006-06-22 18:29:03 · answer #3 · answered by Lance U 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guernica is the name of a city. Picasso did created the work because of a bombing that occurred there sometime in the 1930's. Not sure of the other one.
2006-06-22 09:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by francesfarmer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dictator Franco invited Hitler to bomb Guernica, which was a town in his (Franco) own country known as not being always sympathetic to Franco's rule. The town was the first ever to be totally destroyed by an air force. In short, Franco betrayed not only who he considered revolutionaries, but he condemned an entire population of innocents in his own country to a horrible death in order to get on Hitler's good side. It was to herald the true brutality of Hitler's forces in the second world war.
In short, Guernica was Picasso's testament to the horror of war.
2006-06-22 15:40:11 · answer #5 · answered by Rann 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might also be interested in researching Galatea & Pygmalion myth.
2006-06-22 10:26:41 · answer #6 · answered by Aline S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guernica: war
Galatea: a nymph in Greek mythology
2006-06-22 09:40:34 · answer #7 · answered by Lee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋