Topic 1 - 'Guernica', Pablo Picasso, 1937

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what war did the bombing of Guernica happen in?
the Spanish Civil War
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who bombed the town of guernica?
Nazi Luftwaffe on behalf of General Franco
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where was the work commissioned for?
the paris international exposition
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who was the work commissioned by and for?
the spanish republican government for the spanish pavillion
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how long was the bombing of guernica?
3 1/2 hours
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what time of day was the bombing of guernica?
busiest time on market day
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what amount of people were killed or wounded?
1/3
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it was history's first ever example of....
aerial saturation bombing that marked a new level of brutality in warfare
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the city had no.....
strategic military value
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the event was widely reported and accompanied by.....
graphic pictures of the destroyed town and victims
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the newspaper reports caused picasso to.....
begin working on the guernica
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picasso found out about the event when he was living in....
paris
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how long did he spend on the work?
35 days
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most of the painting's emotional power comes from its...
overwhelming size
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there is a confusing composition of...
terrified victims, angular and overlapping shapes
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the pictorial space is....
shallow, with action set within a room
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the dark background.....
pushes the light forms forward
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there are ..... identifiable......
6 identifiable figures
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what are the six human figures?
four women, a man and a child
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what are the figures of animals?
horse and bull
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what are the three women on the rhs doing?
one looks up to the light bulb above, one leans out of a building holding a lamp, one is screaming and being burned by the burning building
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in the centre there is a....
fallen soldier arms outstretched clutching a broken sword
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a horse tramples the....
fallen soldier
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the largest figure is the....
horse
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the horse may represent....
the out of control european dictators at the time e.g. mussolini and hitler
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on the left a....
woman cradles her dead child
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the height of the woman with the dead child....
heightens the emotional impact
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the mother and dead child represent...
michelangelo's pieta
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behind, a serene...
bull overlooks the destruction, could be a reference to the people of spain or brutality and darkness
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the colours are narrowed down to...
black, white and shades of grey
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the monochromatic tone of the piece links to the sense of....
severity and the factual nature of the scene
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the black and white also references the...
newspapers where picasso learned of the attacks
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there are suggestions of newsprint on the...
body of the horse
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due to the lack of historical specificity guernica has become.....
a symbol of the misery of modern warfare and it's victims
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the light bulb could be a reference to the...
bombs as 'light bulb' in spanish is 'bombia'

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