Pablo Picasso's famous painting Guernica depicts the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes at the request of the Spanish Nationalists under General Francisco Franco on April 26, 1937. The large-scale black-and-white painting shows the bodies of victims and dead or dying animals. Picasso uses cubist techniques to represent different perspectives and the chaos of the event. Guernica was intended to draw attention to the suffering of the people of Guernica and condemn the fascist bombing of civilians. It became one of the most powerful anti-war paintings in history.
4. • Blue Period works
are mostly tragic.
• Most of the paintings
are of beggars and
rich families.
• Elongation of figures
is prominent.
THE BLUE PERIOD
(1901-1904)
5. • This period shows
more compositional
strength.
• Figures have more
solidity , whist
retaining both charm
and simplicity.
THE PINK PERIOD
(1904-1906)
6. • Representation of
human in carving
and ritual masks.
THE AFRICAN PERIOD
(1906-1909)
7. • Developed along with
Georges Barque using
monochrome
brownish and neutral
colors.
• Took apart objects
and analyzed them in
terms of their basic
shapes.
• Synthetic Cubism a
further development
of the genre.
CUBISM
(1909-1912)
8. • Created in response to the bombing of Guernica on 26th April
1937.
• A total of 29 planes carrying 250 kilo’s of bomb were dropped
and about 1700 people died.
• 11ft tall and 25.6ft wide painted in oil on a canvas.
• Shades of grey, black and white were used to show darkness and
death.
18. • The sign of Illuminati’s visible when the hidden lines are emphasized.
• Also the bulb represents the all seeing eye and the same concept.
THE SIGN OF ILLUMINATIS
19. • Possible exit on the extreme left side begin guarded by the bull.
• Apertures as exits or for lights.
POSSIBLE ENTRIES AND EXIT’S
20. • The attention to detail.
• Relaxed hands can be seen of the fleeing woman cause she sense there is
still some hope.
• Hands clenched of the woman holding her child.
TENSION IN THE FIGURES
21. • Re-creating the whole scenario of the event.
• The sounds coming from figures enhancing the agony and pain.
SOUNDS FROM THE PAINTING
22. • The concept of cubism used in this painting.
• Creating all the figures and objects from basic shapes.
• Creating shapes with different tones of grey.
CUBISM AND BASIC
GEOMETRIC SHAPES
47. CONCLUSION
“IF WE START PAYING THIS MUCH
ATTENTION TO DETAIL AS MUCH AS
PICASSO DID AND THE WAY HE
IMPLEMENTED HIS IDEAS, WE CAN
CREATE WONDERS IN ARCHITECTURE”