Abstractions via Pablo Picasso
Abstract Art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality but instead uses shapes, colors, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky Pablo Picasso -Guernica 1937 Guernica is Picasso's most important political painting and remains an anti-war symbol. It is 11'x25' in scale-mural size. The painting depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in l937 during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Republican government commissioned Picasso to paint the large mural for an art exhibition in Paris. The painting remains a global symbol of peace. The painting contains images of people and animals suffering during the tragedies of this war. The popularity of the painting helped to end the Spanish Civil War. The mono-chromatic painting shows an open room with animals and people suffering. A bull stands over a crying woman with a dead child in her arms. A horse falls in terrible pain aft...