Guernica

Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 using newspaper clippings in addition to the more traditional oil and canvas. It was meant to bring attention to the city of Guernica and the bombings that took place by the Germans. Picasso used black and white tones to set a depressing tone and the news paper clippings he put in the picture were to represent on how he heard about the bombing. When Picasso was asked to describe his newly painted Guernica he stated, “this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are”.

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