Recount the event that inspired the painting Guernica. Discuss the style and imagery that Picasso used to respond to that event
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
Franco approved the bombing of his own people in the town of Guernica.
The painting acts as an anti-war statement that still resonates.
The abstract painting has a very limited color palette, emulating newspaper.
Expressively distorted women, one holding a dead child and another trapped in a burning house, wail in desolation at the carnage.
The horse may represent the betrayed innocence and therefore the suffering of the Spanish Republic.
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Consider the statues of Menkaure and Khamerernebty and the Burghers of Calais. Describe the medium of each of these works and identify each by artist or culture. Then discuss the similarities and differences in these representations of the human form in relation to the themes of each work and its relationship to the viewer
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