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Picasso’s “Guernica” review
Evaggelos Tagias,Γ3’
I look at the painting. I can’t say it’s visually
appealing but I don’t think that the target of the painter, Picasso, was to
make it look beautiful. No, he wanted to send a message and let everyone know
about the unspeakable events that took place in the city of Guernica. And I
think he did an excellent job. Picasso depicted the brutality and misery of war
perfectly with a mother holding her dead child, animals and people running and
screaming, a dead soldier on the ground and a woman trapped in a flaming
building. All these, along with the absence of any color other than black,
white and grey create unpleasant feelings, that’s why many people criticize it
negatively. But Picasso also added tiny details that give us hope like the
flower growing out of the broken sword of the dead soldier, to remind us that
after darkness always comes the light.
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