This paper focuses on analyzing Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso. Identify the style of the painting being analyzed and discuss the mediums, techniques, creative principles, technical features, and unique strategies of imaging employed by the artist.

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso.

Identify the style of the painting being analyzed and discuss the mediums, techniques, creative principles, technical features, and unique strategies of imaging employed by the artist. First page to 1½ pages of the paper needs to be devoted to technically discuss the style of the painting and what the artist did to personally, uniquely impact that style. Is the painting Impressionistic, Cubist, Surrealist, Pop, Abstract Impressionist, Photorealist, Neo Expressionist, etc.? 2. Identify, discuss, and analyze the subject matter, major theme and generalized mood generated within the painting. What is the artist attempting to communicate to the viewer?

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso.

What content issues permeate the painting? What is the most noticeable quality and feeling the viewer senses when viewing the painting (is it meditative, peaceful, quiet, or energetic, agitated, chaotic, violent? Is the painting organic, impersonal, charged with movement or energy?) Discuss narrative and genre and relate their possible existence in the painting. 3. Discuss the specific mode of expression is employed in the painting: Is it Naturalist, Representational, Partially Abstract, Abstract, or Non-objective. Discuss, elaborate and relate to your discussions. What unique principles of art perception/structure are employed, if any?

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso.

Does iconography or symbolism play a role in the subject of the painting? Discuss, elaborate, and explain. 4. Identify and discuss the form and physicality existing within the work. IS this painting executed on canvas? Is the canvas cotton duck, linen or hessian sack? Is the canvas stretched or primed. What material and technique was used to prime the canvas? If the painting was not executed on canvas, was it executed on board or some other technological material (like aluminum)? What mediums, materials, and special techniques have been employed in creating the painting? In the work painterly….define and discuss?

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso.

Describe and discuss the artist’s choice of materials and techniques and their effect on the style and appearance of the painting. Is subject matter evident in the painting and how does it relate to content? What about narrative, does it exist in this painting what is its effect on the viewer and viewing? 5. Discuss the composition and visual equilibrium (balance) found in this this painting. Is this painting symmetrical, approximate symmetrical, radial, or asymmetrical in its balance? What factors play a role in creating the type of balance employed? What areas play dominant, or recessive (negative) roles? What areas are subject areas and what areas are background areas?

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso.

What factors contribute to the dominant role-playing that areas present in viewing?  How do positive and negative areas with in painting contribute to create an overall integrated composition? 6. Discuss picture plane, format, and picture frame. Is this an open or closed composition? Discuss space, proportion, and economy. Is illusionism or Trompe L’oeil generated by the image. Are conventional/traditional methods of space ordering employed such as foreshortening, atmospheric perspective, linear perspective or push-pull, optical color employed? If space plays an integral role in this painting, is the space illusion shallow, medium, or deep.

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso.

Does simulated, real, abstract, or invented texture affect the space illusion (define and discuss)? How is texture technically implemented? Are collage, frottage, graffito, impasto, sfumato, bricolage, paper colle, or some other real texture technique employed? 7. Discuss and analyze the form element of line. What kinds of line elements are present (or absent and why?) in this painting? Are outlines, contour lines, cross-contoured, calligraphic, hatched, crosshatched, straight, curvilinear, vertical, horizontal, oblique, or implied lines employed? https://youtu.be/ZU3otfqV6LI

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