Pablo Picasso

Picasso was a spanish artist who lived from 25 October 1881 to 8 April 1973, along with Georges Braque he started the cubist style of art, a technique where "Cézanne's method of representing three dimensions as seen from several viewpoints" was "one of the characteristic features". (paintings.name, Marten Jansen)

My favourite painting by Picasso is Guernica:








It depicts a scene from April 26, 1937 where the town Guernica in northern spain was bombed in one of the first attacks by the Nazi Luftwaffe. I like how the feelings of the characters within the painting are understandable, yet they're so abstracted, almost like cartoons; All the fear and the pain and confusion can be seen within their faces to the point where it sort of disturbs me and brings about in me a feeling of dread and horror at what those people in the town of Guernica must have been going through.