Guernica

Today I want to share a drawing I did yesterday. It isn´t an original painting only one version of one of the most important work of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso's Guernica. Here goes:

I guess the next image is totally unnecessary, since it is a better-known work, but just in case there are any clueless this is theoriginal:

A bit of history about the paint ... It was painted by Picasso in the months of May and June 1973. The title refers to the bombing of Guernica occurred on 26th April of that year during the Spanish civil war by the German Condor Legion and Italian aviationLegion (operation Rügen). The painting was commissioned to expose the Spanish Republic in the Spanish pavillion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937 to give worldwide publicity to the Republican cause.

During the dictatorial regime of General Franco, Picasso decided to exhibit the painting in New York MOMA held, bute xpressed his desire that the painting was returned to Spain at the time to return to democracy. In 1981 the painting arrived to Spain,was exhibited at the Cason del Buen Retiro and then from 1992 in the Reina Sofia museum, where is on permanent exhibition.

Picasso never did say why he painted Guernica, or give an interpretation of the work, so the interpretation is controversial, but their artistic value is beyond question. Not only is considered one of the most important works of the twentieth century but has become a true icon, a symbol of the terrible suffering that the war violates human beings.

In the painting are represented nine characters: A bull (brutality and darkness), a mother with her ​​dead son (protected by the bull,probably symbolizes the besieged city of Madrid), a dove (with a broken wing and almost invisible, it is considered a broken peace sign), a dead warrior (and dismembered, decapitated head and arm with the sword and with a flower symbol of hope in a desolate), a light bulb (it is the most controversial imageawake, multiple interpretations, from the eye of society that observe but nor condems, until the bombs dropped by aircraft, the scientific progress ...), a horse (about to fall badly wounded, pierced by a spear), a kneeling woman (wound), a woman with a lamp (Phantom of the republic, illuminates the room and goes in a state of shok), a burning house and a man begging (begging the planes to stop bombing, inspired by Goya's painting The Shootings of May 3rd). 

I hope you have enjoyed this great painting, and all who haveoccasion, considering the original in the museum Reina Sofia inMadrid,  I say gooddbye citing an anecdote on the mouth of Picasso about the painting, greetings! :)

It is said that in 1940, Nazi-occupied Paris, a German officer,with a picture of a reproduction of Guernica, asked to Picasso if it was he who had done that. The painter replied, "No, you were"