The Meaning of Guernica

Guernica

Celebration of modern fascism

Horrific devastation in the Basque town of Guernica

Monochrome grisaille

Crawling analysis of the violent reaction of man to the very question of the order of the matador

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Guernica

Man looking downward

Crutches breaking the irrational collage of biomorphic shapes

Art is evident in the image of the Bull

Blinds over the window

Democracy of Bulls

Forthcoming centenary of the moon bisected by a razor

Terrified women

Death speaks the new language of man

Photomontage drawn from the Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Guernica

Theatre of the fragment

Psychiatric ward north of the Atlas of grief

Moon tears placed between text and tableauvivant

Previous lie on the edge of the coherent symbol

Newsreels

Violent reaction of man to the schemes of bombing of the market day

Mithraic, mythological, monochrome grisaille

Paint is the diamond of agony

Kahlo denied being a surrealist bomb in the hand of a Spanish matador

Mutability of pain

Black rain in the Basque town of Guernica

Democracy of bulls

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Guernica

Bull is evident in the image of the bull

Night of putrid snores

Forthcoming analysis of the violent reaction of man to the question of the order of the bull

Sacrifice on narrative

Illusive documentation of Picasso’s lover

Forms resembling possibility of scales

Bull fighters on heat

Democracy of bulls

Dark room

Parallel gloom

Existential practice

Cave of man in the cave of man

Man counting the futility of man in the affairs of man

Democracy of bulls

Minotaur chanting the ultimate anthem of bullfighting

Democracy of bulls

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Guernica

Violent reaction of man to the irrational collage of biomorphic forms

Previous lie on the symbol of agony

Art is evident in the image of the bull

Matador placed between text and tableau vivant

Monochrome grisaille

Breast of bull, scrotum of cow

Mithraic, mythological, monochrome grisaille

Barbarian goddess

Tree trunks drifting into the rock of bones

Democracy of bulls

Banderillero on a bull

Monochrome grisaille

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Guernica

Man quantifying the futility of bullfighting for man

Woman is the avatar of man

Bullfighters on heat

Democracy of bulls

Man is the painter of the evening of peace

Le meyer el torros del hombre

Incoherent fascism

Fallen blood

Death speaks the new language of man

Le meyer el torros del hombre

Banderillero on heat

Mithraic, mythological, monochrome grisaille

Poet as matador seeking meaning in the grey shadow of pain

Monochrome grisaille

Fascist blood

Incoherent fall

Man speaks the new language of death

Democracy of bulls

Mithraic, mythological, monochrome grisaille

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