GUERNICA

Our project centered around Pablo Picasso’s iconic painting Guernica, a powerful anti-war artwork created in response to the 1937 bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso’s original piece uses stark symbolism and distorted forms to express the pain, chaos, and suffering inflicted by war on innocent civilians. Inspired by Guernica’s raw emotional power and political message, we repainted the scene using imagery drawn from current real-world conflicts like Gun VIolence.

Cubism, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, breaks down objects into geometric forms and reassembles them in an abstract way. Shapes may overlap, be viewed from multiple perspectives, or be fragmented into smaller sections. Our assignment was to create an image using cubism and incoorperating 5 3d shapes which was a pyramid, rectangualr prism, cyldinder, and a cube. 

This project is about how art and science are connected and learning about the chemicals in our brain to help us understand how we feel and why we act the way we do. My partner and I drew a portrait of a guy face around his face. The blue chemical represents his stress and the red represents his grief.