Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings - 1 views
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Michelle WAA on 15 Nov 10Chipp, H. Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1988. Print. In the third chapter, the actual events that lead up to, during, and after the village of Guernica is described in detail. The village was relentlessly bombed on Monday, April 26, 1937 (Chipp 24). Hundreds of bombs were used on a defenseless town. The places that were supposed to be targeted were untouched at the end of the almost four hour bombing mission. In the twelfth chapter, Guernica's political means are discussed but since Picasso could never give a consistent answer the political meaning of Guernica is unknown. Also, the two main figures of the painting, the bull and horse, were described by a poet by the name of Juan Larrea (Chipp 196). According to Larrea, the bull was a heroic figure of "Spanish life" (Chipp 196) and the suffering horse represented the end to "Francoist regime" (Chipp 196).