Pablo Picasso's famous painting Guernica depicts the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes at the request of the Spanish Nationalists under General Francisco Franco on April 26, 1937. The large-scale black-and-white painting shows the bodies of victims and dead or dying animals. Picasso uses cubist techniques to represent different perspectives and the chaos of the event. Guernica was intended to draw attention to the suffering of the people of Guernica and condemn the fascist bombing of civilians. It became one of the most powerful anti-war paintings in history.

1. GUERNICA
PABLO PICASSO

2. “ART IS A LIE THAT MAKES
US REALIZE THE TRUTH”
BY PABLO PICASSO

3. Pablo Picasso
(25th October 1881 – 8th April 1973)

4. • Blue Period works
are mostly tragic.
• Most of the paintings
are of beggars and
rich families.
• Elongation of figures
is prominent.
THE BLUE PERIOD
(1901-1904)

5. • This period shows
more compositional
strength.
• Figures have more
solidity , whist
retaining both charm
and simplicity.
THE PINK PERIOD
(1904-1906)

6. • Representation of
human in carving
and ritual masks.
THE AFRICAN PERIOD
(1906-1909)

7. • Developed along with
Georges Barque using
monochrome
brownish and neutral
colors.
• Took apart objects
and analyzed them in
terms of their basic
shapes.
• Synthetic Cubism a
further development
of the genre.
CUBISM
(1909-1912)

8. • Created in response to the bombing of Guernica on 26th April
1937.
• A total of 29 planes carrying 250 kilo’s of bomb were dropped
and about 1700 people died.
• 11ft tall and 25.6ft wide painted in oil on a canvas.
• Shades of grey, black and white were used to show darkness and
death.

9. DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PAINTING

10. • A woman holding
her child killed in
war.
• The bull symbolizing
General Franco.
THE BULL, WOMAN
AND CHILD

11. • The center is
occupied by a horse
falling in agony as it
had just been run
through by a spear.
THE CENTRAL
PYRAMID

12. • Showing defeat and death.
• Stigma sign on the hand symbolizes pain.
THE FALLEN WARRIOR - A

13. • Broken sword again showing defeat.
• Flower rising from the hand symbolizes that there is still some hope left.
THE FALLEN WARRIOR - B

14. • A woman, raising
her arms in terror is
entrapped by fire
from above and
below.
THE FALLING
WOMAN

15. • A woman who is
trying to run away
but is being held
back.
THE FLEEING WOMAN

16. • A woman floating
in from the outside
, holding the candle
of hope and
challenging the
light of the bulb.
THE WOMAN WITH LAMP

17. THE HUMAN SKULL THE BULL HEAD
THE TWO HIDDEN IMAGES

18. • The sign of Illuminati’s visible when the hidden lines are emphasized.
• Also the bulb represents the all seeing eye and the same concept.
THE SIGN OF ILLUMINATIS

19. • Possible exit on the extreme left side begin guarded by the bull.
• Apertures as exits or for lights.
POSSIBLE ENTRIES AND EXIT’S

20. • The attention to detail.
• Relaxed hands can be seen of the fleeing woman cause she sense there is
still some hope.
• Hands clenched of the woman holding her child.
TENSION IN THE FIGURES

21. • Re-creating the whole scenario of the event.
• The sounds coming from figures enhancing the agony and pain.
SOUNDS FROM THE PAINTING

22. • The concept of cubism used in this painting.
• Creating all the figures and objects from basic shapes.
• Creating shapes with different tones of grey.
CUBISM AND BASIC
GEOMETRIC SHAPES

23. IMPACT OF BLACK ON WHITE AND WHITE ON BLACK

24. DIG FOOD & WINE
USE OF NEGATIVE AND
POSITIVE SPACES

25. FLIGHT FINDER CIRCUS OF MAGAZINES
CREATING AN IMAGE WITHIN AN IMAGE

26. USE OF SYMBOLISM
IN ARCHITECTURE

27. • The literal use of lotus flower can be seen easily here.
SYMBOLISM IN LITERRAL SENSE

28. • The use of star is
not visible here but
is being used
figuratively and is
hidden within this
pentagon.
SYMBOLISM IN FIGURATIVE SENSE

29. USE OF CUBISM IN
ARCHITECTURE

30. The Nursing home by
Aires Mateus
Architects

33. USE OF NEGATIVE AND
POSTIVE IN ARCHITECTURE

34. LIGHT IN NEGATIVE
AND POSITIVE

37. FORM IN NEGATIVE
AND POSITIVE

38. TADAO ANDO – CHURCH OF LIGHT

39. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

41. THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART

44. SPACE IN NEGATIVE
AND POSTIVE

45. La Muralla Roja by Ricardo Bofill

47. CONCLUSION
“IF WE START PAYING THIS MUCH
ATTENTION TO DETAIL AS MUCH AS
PICASSO DID AND THE WAY HE
IMPLEMENTED HIS IDEAS, WE CAN
CREATE WONDERS IN ARCHITECTURE”