Which event inspired Pablo Picasso's Guernica? How does Picasso's composition respond to this event?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Pablo Picasso's Guernica responds to an event during the Spanish Civil War in which German bombers flying for Spanish fascist leader General Francisco Franco bombed the Basque city of Guernica, which killed more than 1,600 people.
2. Picasso's painting focuses on the victims, frozen in mid-movement, and, by restricting his palette to black, gray, and white, Picasso mimics the stark tones of the newspaper photographs that publicized the atrocity.
3. Expressively distorted women, one holding a dead child and another trapped in a burning house, wail in desolation at the carnage, and some have interpreted the screaming horse as an image of betrayed innocence, representing the suffering Spanish Republic.
4. The bull could symbolize either Franco or Spain, but Picasso refused to provide interpretations of the layered symbolism, claiming that the painting was about massacred people and animals-beyond that, its meaning is fluid.
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