Related Picassos - Guernica, 1937

	Guernica, 1937
If you've found this site useful, we'd really appreciate a small donation to help with the hosting costs. Thanks!	The 1934 Drawing and its Correspondences in Picasso's Oeuvre Guernica, 1937 Picasso incorporated the same complex layering of imagery and themes in the 1934 drawing as he used in "Guernica" and in many respects it is the same composition. Severed arms, subliminal skulls, bull's heads, spears* and the diagonally divided dark and light tones are common to both as are a number of important structural features. Sometimes this association is rendered cryptically in one or other of the pictures, for example, the woman with the lamp in "Guernica", who appears to represent Venus, the morning star, is also a metaphor for Lucifer, the light bringer, and in the 1934 drawing, she reappears as the devil Lucifer bringing a dark flame from the same upper right hand quadrant. There is also a relationship between the light above the horse in "Guernica" and the sun above the head of Marie-Therese who is depicted as the personification of the wounded horse. As a result of these figurative, structural and cryptic associations, the 1934 drawing is without doubt the principal precursor of "Guernica" itself and many of its preliminary studies. For a further discussion of Guernica's intimate relationship to the drawing please refer to the folowing two pages, Guernica in Depth and Picasso's Secret Guernica. © Mark Harris 1996, 1997 Related Picassos The Burial of Casagemas (Evocation), 1901 The Embrace, 1901 La Vie, 1903 Phallus and Nude, 1903 The Mackerel, 1903 Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 Curtain Design for Parade, 1917 Pantomime Horse Studies for Parade, 1917 - Related Puppetry Imagery Costume Studies for Pulchinella, 1920 The Three Dancers, 1925 The Three Dancers in depth La Statuaire, 1925 The Studio, 1925 Crucifixion, 1930 Crucifixion Studies of the 1930's The Vollard Suite Classical Prints of the 1920's and 1930's The Dream, 1932 Le Meurtre, 1934 and The Death of Marat, 1934 Minotaur with Javelin, 1934 Minotauromachy, 1936 Picasso's illustrations of Paul Eluard's poem, "La Barre d'Appui", 1936 Guernica, 1937 Guernica in depth Picasso's Secret Guernica Night Fishing in Antibes, 1939 Curtain Design for Romain Rolland's Play,"Le 14 Juillet", 1936 Grand air, Les yeux fertiles, 1936 Erotic Compositions of the 1950's and 1960's Peace, 1952 Picasso's Bestiary Next Section: Themes of the 1934 Drawing

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