... properly, visiting brothels, and ignoring his family members that the two were not allowed to stay with the family. Pablo Picasso's friend Carlos Casagemas passed away after committing suicide in front of friends at the Café de l'Hippodrome because of the failure with his girlfriend ... , a loving mother with her baby, a couple embracing love, and a lonely man who is all by himself. This was another painting about his friend Casagemas. Picasso's only response about the painting was: "I was not the one who gave it that title, 'La Vie.' I certainly had no intention of painting symbols; I ...

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Guernica The piece I chose is Guernica, the mural painted for the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris's World Fair by Pablo Picasso. Standing at 11'6" x 25'8", its massive size does not help mask the symbolic brutality from its viewers. Using only black, white ... paints, this mural is riddles the canvas with symbolism, begging its viewer to decipher its underlaying message. The Guernica uses its images as a language with Picasso playing narrator the story unveils. Everything in the piece has something more to say than what it is presenting. The inspiration from Guernica came from the ... " -Pioch C...

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... the values of liberalism were severely tested and in some cases overthrown. To those who clung to liberal ideas, the world had seemed to go mad. In a painting by Pablo Picasso titled Guernica, Picasso paints a vivid symbol of the violent twenty years between World War I and World War II. Depicting the bombing of the unarmed town of Guernica by Nazi planes during the ... Spanish Civil War, the painting transforms the local struggle into an international battle between totalitarianism and human freedom-the issue that also dominated the age's ideological debates. Picasso's painting is a pe...

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