Art Analysis: Guernica's Painting

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Michael Rosales Professor Anreus Art and Politics 8 December 2014 Art and Politics Take Home Final Event that inspired Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, 1937 was his immediate reaction to the Nazi’s devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The Guernica portrays the events that occurred in the war and the suffering it inflicts cause upon the innocent especially the civilians. In the painting, we can see what appears to be a person trying to jump off from a building because of a fire. This painting is primarily portraying the destruction and chaos of the war affecting the life of many people and communities. We see the victims of bombing, some are alive and dead. For instance, the figure…show more content…
A movement that is best known for its visual artworks and writings. A painting creating strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself and idea. I believe the meaning of Picasso’s Guernica painting is the chaos and brutality reigning over civilization because of the Guernica bombing attack. In the painting, I see what seems to be a symbol. The bull is a symbol of Spain itself, and the portraying that the country is still standing even after a brutal attack. The Guernica is also a nationalistic painting, the bull which represents the country of Spain. There is also a horse which represents the people of Guernica. Guernica represents the horrible cost of Spain’s civil conflict. The Mexican mural movement began about 1913.When the president of Mexico, Victoriano Huerta appointed Martinez as director of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas. During the end of the Mexican Revolution, artists created art that could educate the mostly illiterate masses about Mexican History. The potential of the Mexican’s to craft the nation’s history was a key theme in Mexican muralism. A movement led by three muralist; Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and Jose Orozco also known as the Los tres…show more content…
The work of Siqueiros uses a traditional fresco technique by using watercolor and damping it on a plaster. His paintings is mostly defined by his quick and exaggerated point of view. Siqueiros ability to incorporate Mexican art with innovative techniques was good. It showed original, influential, and dramatic work of art. Siqueiros wanted to try a new type of mural painting that relied on modern technology. A type of painting that consist the use of spraying, poured, dripped, and splattered, giving it a unique effect. In addition, Siqueiros had an interest in modern stuff. He then began to incorporate machines, science, and other technology into his art. He was able to portray his message of the issues through his art. Rivera however worked in a more traditional way. The things he learned from European modernism, he used it to connect with the Mexican art. He created a form that allows him to portray his social and political ideas on a wide scale. He uses bright and light colors of Mexico in his art but later used colors that consists of brown, oranges, green, and shades of red giving the murals more life. The color he uses gave a sense of truth to his
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