Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Why does Picasso use the minotaur (bull) in the painting Guernica?

I think it's a horse, and it is a painting about war. Maybe not, but its probably symbolic for the anger in the army.
Why does Picasso use the minotaur (bull) in the painting Guernica?
Its symbolic for something, but im not sure what. That's because as the viewer, Picasso includes these symbols for us to interpriate. Is the bull Picasso? is the bull war? is the bull the answer to solve the war? All i know is that because he grew up in Spain, he loved watching the bull fights, which was a huge aspect in Spanish culture. The work is surrounded around the War in Spain, and i think Guernica is filled with so many symbols for us to discover and wonder "what did he mean by producing this work?" and "what does it mean to me? what do i feel?" To you, what does the bull represent? :)
Why does Picasso use the minotaur (bull) in the painting Guernica?
It was not the Minitaur. I think that part of the image was just to illustrate that much of the horrors of war are visited upon the innocents, livestock as well as human. A person need not be fatally wounded to be destroyed. Destroy his means of making a living and feeding his family is almost as bad as destroying his flesh.


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