Anti-War Painting

Picasso's work named, Guernica (1937), appears to be one of the most interesting work that I have ever seen. At first glance, I notice all of the images of people or these creatures are in a state of agony and they're positioned in such uncomfortable way that it makes me feel uneasy. All the people or creatures seem distraught or dying, one person even looks dead. In the middle of the work, it is very clustered and a lot is happening, from the people on the right stretching their necks to draw a little more focus towards the action, which seems like murder scene of some sort, with what seems to be a knife on the bottom and a human of some sort that looks dead. It definitely looks like a landscape, but a version with so much more than your typical over the distance sunset and grassy scene. The image has very strong and harsh lines running through image and in the middle there's almost like a diamond like shape surrounding the chaotic center. The harsh line and intense clutter with obscured depiction defines the abstract and unrealism of it. The image was painted in hopes to prevent World War II from happening, showing some death and almost like a battlefied-like scenery. In conclusion, I really enojy this painting due to its complexity and intricacies and I would feel very discouraged to go into a war after seeing this image.