What is the meaning of Guernica, drawn by Pablo Picasso?

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Guernica or Guernica y Lumo (Basque Gernika-Lumo, pronounced in ) is a small city in the Spanish Basque Country that was the meeting place of the Biscayne assembly under an oak tree, the Gernikako Arbola, which was a symbol of traditional freedoms of the Basque people. The oak tree, which had lived since 1860 died in June of 2004. ...

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Guernica Meaning

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What is the meaning of Guernica, drawn by Pablo Picasso?

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Guernica Analysis

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Picasso was commissioned to paint something for the 1937 World Fair, he delivered Guernica. It is an expression of pain, horror, anguish and disgust; what the artist felt after hearing the news of the terrible bombing of Guernica, a town in northern Spain, on April 26 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

The Germans were helping Franco's side during this war and the bombing was a test of the new German weaponry and war strategy 'Blitzkrieg' (lightning war) that would spread horror all over Europe during WWII. German planes came down over the town without any warning during market day and delivered a load of incendiary bombs over civilian population. The town burned for 3 days. Six hundred civilians died during this massacre.

The painting is rich on symbolic details, like many of Picasso's paintings but it is basically a testimony of the horrors caused by mechanized war.

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Guernica was Picasso's response to the horror of war. It is named after a town in North-Central Spain which was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War.

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There are so many similarities between 1934 drawing and Guernica that it seems certain to be an important but unknown precursor to Picasso's greatest painting.

Like the drawing, Guernica is also full of hidden images and themes, consequently, almost every line and shape in it is meaningful, either in the context of what it represents or what it is concealing.

The themes of death, the bullfight and the crucifixion are common to both pictures.

The Guernica bull is very like the bull in the drawing, both are huge, in profile and stand motionless observing the scene before them.

There is a strong similarity in the dramatic clashing of light and dark tones and the overhead light sources in both pictures.

In both Guernica and the 1934 drawing there is a second bull's head concealed below the horse.

The head of the woman with the lamp in Guernica swoops downwards from the upper right corner in exactly the same way as does the head of the hidden Lucifer in the drawing. Lucifer means 'the light bringer' and is related symbolically to Venus, the Morning Star. She represents the evil of the physical world.

The fallen warrior in Guernica is very similar to the central figure in the 1934 drawing, both are in the crucifixion pose and both have severed arms, identifying them symbolically with Picasso. The fallen warrior, like the central figure in the drawing, is also relatable to Parsifal, because of the broken sword in his hand. Parsival was given a magnificent sword which breaks in two at a crucial moment in battle.

In the center of Guernica there is a human skull concealed within the body and legs of the wounded horse.

Both pictures contain the same overlaying of horse and skull in the center.

In Guernica the horse has been stabbed by a spear, a symbol representing Picasso-the first four letters of his name mean spear in Spanish. The diamond tip of the spear represents harlequin, who like Christ has a mystical power over death.

The Guernica spear also has a relationship to the broad paintbrush in the 1934 drawing. This has been overlaid on to the skull within the area of the concealed horse. In Guernica we find the skull penetrated by a spear within the horse. Picasso would have certainly made the association between a wet paintbrush and a spear in his childhood. Therefore it seems plausible from the placing of the paintbrush in the 1934 drawing, that the Guernica spear, is also a cryptic representation of Picasso's paintbrush, partly because of its similar appearance and partly because of its connection to Picasso's remarks about painting being a weapon,

'No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. its an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.'

The Guernica spear penetrates a cryptic representation of Hitler in the center of the composition. In the center of the 1934 drawing there is also a concealed portrait of Hitler.

In the 1934 drawing, Picasso takes possession of the spear from Klingsor, who is strongly associated with Hitler. In Guernica, the artist continues this Wagnerian narrative by stabbing Hitler with the spear, which has now been transformed into a talisman of Picasso's personal mystical symbols.

Picasso was very secretive about the meanings of Guernica and would only talk about it in a guarded and superficial way, yet the mysteries of its imagery have given rise to more art historical interpretations than any other picture in history. Surprisingly, nearly all of these scholarly interpretations are oblivious to Guernica's concealed imagery.

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Guernica Pablo Picasso, 1937 oil on canvas 349 × 776 cm, 137.4 × 305.5 inches Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

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Guernica was bombed. That's it. Today the picture might be called Qana.

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