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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sinhala Kolla" data-source="post: 2489575" data-attributes="member: 65118">මට වැඩි විස්තර කරන්න බැරි වුනා ඒ ගැන..වෙලා යන නිසා මම විකිපීඩියා එකෙන් මේක දාන්නෙ..Guernica is of remarkable size, solely black and white, 3.5 metre (11 ft) tall and 7.8 metre (25.6 ft) wide, a mural-size canvas painted in oil. Picasso's purpose in painting it was not to create the non-representational abstraction typical of some of his contemporaries, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich" target="_blank">Kazimir Malevich</a>. Guernica presents a scene of death, violence, brutality, suffering, and helplessness without portraying their immediate causes. The choice to paint in black and white conveys the chronological nearness of a newspaper photograph and the lifelessness war affords. Guernica depicts suffering people, animals, and buildings wrenched by violence and chaos. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The overall scene is within a room where, at an open end on the left, a wide-eyed bull stands over a woman grieving over a dead child in her arms.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The centre is occupied by a horse falling in agony as it had just been run through by a spear or javelin. The shape of a human skull forms the horse's nose and upper teeth.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two "hidden" images formed by the horse appear in Guernica (illustrated to the right):<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A human skull is overlayed on the horse's body.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A bull appears to gore the horse from underneath. The bull's head is formed mainly by the horse's entire front leg which has the knee on the ground. The leg's knee cap forms the head's nose. A horn appears within the horse's breast.</li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Under the horse is a dead, apparently dismembered soldier, his hand on a severed arm still grasps a shattered sword from which a flower grows.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A light bulb blazes in the shape of an eye over the suffering horse's head (the bare bulb of the torturer's cell.)</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To the upper right of the horse, a frightened female figure, who seems to be witnessing the scenes before her, appears to have floated into the room through a window. Her arm, also floating in, carries a flame-lit lamp.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From the right, an awe-struck woman staggers towards the center below the floating female figure. She looks up blankly into the blazing light bulb.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Daggers that suggest screaming replace the tongues of the bull, grieving woman, and horse.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A bird, possibly a dove, stands on a shelf behind the bull in panic.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On the far right, a figure with arms raised in terror is entrapped by fire from above and below.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A dark wall with an open door defines the right end of the mural.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata" target="_blank">stigmata</a> (the supposed marks on the hands of those who have "suffered as Jesus") on the hands of the dead soldier. Picasso was not religious, although he was brought up in the predominantly Catholic Spain, and these symbols are not to be interpreted as Christian identification. This, instead, reflects the idea that all of us suffer often without cause. Here Picasso is using a well recognisable image to demonstrate how we are all like Christ, in that we all suffer and eventually die.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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