Simbologia di GUERNICA  -  Pablo Picasso -  I SIMBOLI NELL'ARTE

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso created to commemorate the memory of the victims of e aerial bombing of the Basque city during the Spanish Civil War that occurred On April 26 1937 at the hands of the German military air force Guernica was the first city in history to suffer an aerial bombing As for color categories the color is intentionally absent to emphasize the drama of the event In the center stands the icon of a hallucinated and crazy horse that has a bomb in its mouth It is the symbol of the murderous violence that disrupts daily life A filament bulb above the animal figure is a symbol of daily serenity Human values dramatically swept away Interesting is the similarity of the chandelier together with the light beside it supported From the hand of a man with that of Van Gogh's Potato Eaters where a simple family shares their evening meal In the same way it serves to make the contrast between the two scenes even more vid and dramatic e one of daily and serene family routine the other of sudden violence and destruction of the most sacred and peaceful moments of life The horse is counterposed on the left by a stylized bull icon symbolizing the Wounded and offended Spain and an allegory of struggle as a fair fight with equal weapons like The bullfight where a man challenges a stronger animal risking his own life Air bombing represents the opposite of such loyalty because destruction falls from the sky from the sky without being able to resist it The arm holding a broken sword is a symbol of the equal battle tha It is rendered futile by the ruthless destruction of a bombing from the sky on defenseless populations The icons use mimetic codes that emphasize the brutality of the event A woman grieving with her dead son in her arms is an icon of mothers who have lost their children brutally slain without hope The mutilated head of a man is a symbol of blind violence that deprives one of reason and disfigures The beauty of life and the human being The human icon on the right represents the fear of those trying to flee from burning houses The opera is an allegory of murderous madness that erupts during wars and a metaphor The destruction of a city that has become its own symbol of martyrdom