My favorite painting

Hello everyone, how are you???
I hope you are fine
This week I am going talk about my favorite painting: “Guernica”. This one was painted by Picasso in memory of the city of Guernica, which was bombed in the Spanish civil war, by the franquists.
The spanish republic asked Picasso to make a painting for the Spanish Pavilion, during the international exposition of Paris in 1937.


In the painting you can see: a bull, this animal represents the Spanish culture; a mother crying for her dead son; a warrior with his neck cut off; a horse that shouts intensely: this animal represents the maximum pain; and the figure that’s most important for me is the flower, that represents peace in the middle of the war.
In my opinion, Guernica is a very sad painting, because it showes the cruelest side of the war; but the same time it’s very interesting, because has a critical view about the Spanish society in war.
I like very much this painting because Picasso used the expressionist art. This type of art showes the drama of situations, so you can imagine how people lived in the war, how they resist the repression of the government of Franco, how they survived and the most important, how they held out heroically and fought for their ideals and for liberty.
I hope you like this exposition.
I see you in class
bye