Name: Raymond Pustelnik

Period: 7/8
Day: B
TALKING ABOUT ART

Directions
Answer the three questions below, in a 100 word or more paragraph in the space below using
RED text. Watch the Guernica 3D video and look at the painting Guernica on the project
website to help answer these questions. Save this to your Google drive, and Hand it into the
Dropbox on Haiku.
What details in the painting catch your attention?
What questions of curiosity are sparked by the painting?
What conclusions can you make that are based on information in the painting?
The painting looks to be about death and destruction, details like the dead hand holding the
knife could mean self-destruction. The mutated animals with humans could imply that we are no
better than animals when we act in the way we do in wartime. It looks like there are ghosts to
represent the dead. There are also body parts and dead people strewn about to further intensify
the feeling of death. One question of curiosity sparked by this painting is what has he seen in
his lifetime and during the time period he was living in, to cause him to paint something like this.
Based on the information in the painting, I can conclude that Picasso wanted to show us that
humans are self-destructive towards their own species by nature and that we are no better than
the animals we eat and own.