Art, Theatre, and Film (Essay Sample)

Art, Theatre, and Film
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Art, Theatre, and Film
The German bombers transformed Guernica, a quiet Spanish market town, into an eternal emblem of the crime of warfare. Picasso expresses the outrage of war with Guernica, a huge mural-sized painting that numerous guests to Paris World's Fair get to view (Robinson, 2015). The painting has turned into a powerful rebuke against the war in the 20th century. The painting remains intensely relatable today.
Picasso has used color to protest against the Nazi and Fascist bombing of Guernica. The gray, black, and white colors of the paint reflect the artists' initial encounter with the original newspaper reports and photographs in black and white. It puts forward to the artist, Picasso, the purposeful factuality of the report of an eyewitness. A dramatic intensity is created by Picasso's sharp alternation of black and white. The use of color helps to depict the suffering and anguish that war causes.
Besides color, the other striking feature as the viewer looks at the painting is its abstracted form. The form shows how the painting has presented various aspects of war using various objects. It gave Picasso the ability to employ a fantastic view to stress the emotion the painting portrays. It also gives the viewer the ability to effectively analyze the scene and its implication (Robinson, 2015). The author can easily decipher the broken parts and get a deep insight into this central narrative depicting the massacre of the war. The painting presents distinctive utilization of a monochromatic scale, part8icularly that of white and black, that helps to further convey its message against war.
The visual complexity of the painting is symbolic of the earlier Cubist style. When the viewer first glances at Guernica's composition, it seems to be puzzling and muddled. It appears like everything is in flux. There is compression and ambiguity in space with changing perspectives, and various viewpoints characterize the cubist style. Overlapping and intersecting of images captures the viewer, obscuring forms that make it challenging to discriminate their boundaries (Robinson, 2015). The distorted and semi-abstracted bodies are visible, with discontinuous and fragmentary forms. The viewer sees that everything is jumbled collectively as sharp angular lines pierce and fragment the dissected bodies. Nonetheless, looking closely, the viewer can note an overriding visual order (Robinson, 2015). The artist balances the painting's composition through figure organization into three vertical groupings shifting from left to right, with stability in the center figures within a huge triangle of light.
Another painting similar to Guernica portraying the tradition of social protest is the Tube Shelter by Henry Moore. This piece was prepared during World War II, a moment in history filled with death and fear. The portrait of the Londoners hiding in an underground tube from the blitz depicts a sense of tre