Answer Key for Student Organizer #3:

What is your first impression of this painting? How is this created?

• discomfort
• chaos
• organic, biomorphic shapes
• jagged and curved lines
• black and white
• expression
• dismembered bodies

What imagery do you see? Why did Picasso use this?

• Woman and child/Mary and Jesus
• Bull/Ancient symbol of male fertility and bull fighting
• Candle and light bulb/ illusion to God as well as the modern and ancient world

How has Picasso interpreted the events of Guernica?

• Timeless
• Sacrificial
• Cyclic