https://padlet.com/michaelnocentini1/bp8d7f1euz5s Introduction Page en-us 2018-10-15 11:32:09 UTC 2018-10-15 12:57:13 UTC hello@padlet.com michaelnocentini1 https://padlet.com/michaelnocentini1/bp8d7f1euz5s/wish/292746611 Pablo Picasso's oil painting on canvas, "Guernica", explores the civil war throughout Spain, Guernica being a small town where bombs were dropped. Seen throughout the artwork we are able to identify a quite stressful and distorted abstract painting, which explores the elements on suffering children, mothers and elderly. We are also able to identify the symbols of two certain animals, one being a 'bull' which represents the bull fighting throughout Spain but we are also able to see the second animal which is a 'horse' with a dagger as a tongue. We are also able to recognise the use of the woman in the top right corner who seems to be crying/pleading for help in relation to the bombing on their own town throughout the war. Lastly we are able to recognise the light in the eye as well as the candle that hovers over all that is occurring in the piece which represents the light that is shone on what is happening but the light in the eye was also seen as the Eye of God to show that even through times of struggle and suffering God is still watching over the people who are suffering.]]> 2018-10-15 11:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelnocentini1/bp8d7f1euz5s/wish/292746611 michaelnocentini1 https://padlet.com/michaelnocentini1/bp8d7f1euz5s/wish/292747049 Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for the International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life, celebrated that same year in the city of Paris. One year before, on the 17th of July 1936, a bloody civil war that opposed the left wing republican government to a right-wing military uprising had started in Spain. It was in response to this event and the ongoing civil war it provoked that the Spanish Government asked Pablo Picasso to create a painting for its pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition – to expose the horrors of the conflict to the rest of its European neighbors and bid for their aid.Faced with such a sizable challenge, Picasso drew inspiration from one of the most shocking chapters of that war: the attack by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Legionary Air Force on the Spanish city of Guernica, in the Basque Country. This bloody attack took place on market day when much of the local population was gathered in the town’s streets. This plus the fact that this was the first carpet bombing to be performed during the Spanish Civil War (a progressive and systematic attack on one location, aimed at destroying it completely) are the most likely explanations of why Picasso chose to focus on Guernica as a symbol for the war in general.]]> 2018-10-15 11:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelnocentini1/bp8d7f1euz5s/wish/292747049 michaelnocentini1 https://padlet.com/michaelnocentini1/bp8d7f1euz5s/wish/292780945 Picasso’s piece demonstrates the disparity and losses of war, specifically the attack on Guernica in 1937 as a test run for the mass killings that would take place. Through the cubist image, many limbs and figures appear contorted as Picasso symbolises the confusion of the people in Guernica as the attack was late in the afternoon while many were asleep. ]]> 2018-10-15 12:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michaelnocentini1/bp8d7f1euz5s/wish/292780945