Guernica By Pablo Picasso: Painting Analysis

Throughout history, mankind had wars for benefits of their own or their allies. But not many actually care about the things that happen to the ones that don’t have anything to do with any of it, whether they’re people or the nature, they don’t care at all. The wars have hurt many innocent people and the nature brutally, causing deaths of millions and loss of many natural resources. The things that can be done to prevent these events were not a lot but with the power of many individuals people were able to create a movement. There are people that have started an anti-war movement against these events. The so called anti-war activist artists show the effects of war on the world and protest against war by using their creativity to apply devastating

One of the leading artists that made a big impact with his paintings is no one other than Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso is a well know painter in our day and he was known for his many beautiful works. But he has a work that stands out in-between all the others; his most know painting; a painting that criticizes a certain act of war rather than just being an imaginary product. The act that we are talking about here is the bombing practice of the Nazi’s on Guernica and the painting is a reaction to this inhuman event. “Guernica” was Picasso’s most powerful politic statement and his most known artwork (Guernica). It shows the tragedies and sufferings that the innocent people went through. Later on the painting became an anti-war symbol that reminded the consequences of war to the ones that observed it. A painting that has many implementations of war criticism in it… For instance; one of these

Paul Nash was a British landscape painter that happened to serve as a war-artist during his lifetime. He was a man that got his education about art, and showed his talents during both World Wars in the trenches with the soldiers. He had mastered his painting skills based on trench lives and most of the paintings of his were based on what he saw during his army times (Who’s Who - Paul Nash). Nash’s “Dead Sea” shows how he got affected with the things he saw during those hard times. The painting was painted from a scene that Nash saw, which was an aircraft dump that was used in World War II. Paul Nash had spent great effort in describing what he saw with his eyes in the painting. For instance; Nash had described the things he saw: “The thing looked to me, suddenly, like a great inundating sea. You might feel – under certain circumstances – a moonlight night, for instance, this is a vast tide moving across the fields, the breakers rearing up and crashing on the plain. And then, no, nothing moves, it is not water or even ice, it is something static and dead…” (Paul Nash). The painting has deep meanings embedded into it in ways that both teach and criticize what happened during the war. For instance; the painting includes many fallen planes belonging to the Nazi Germany, with German marks on the wings. The planes are structured like they are the sea; they’re creating the “dead sea” which is made up of