Picasso’s mares

Authors

  • Juan Francisco Esteban Lorente Universidad de Zaragoza

Keywords:

Spanish painting, Animals in art, Picasso, Pablo, El Guernica

Abstract

The horse in Picasso’s Guernica is not a horse, but a mare which has just given birth to a Little Pegasus (a foal with wings which Picasso later changed into a bird). The horse is shouting because  it  is  dying  transf ixed  by  Franco’s  lance.  In  the  lower  part  of  the  painting  we  see  the remains of a Greek sculpture: a broken Doryphoros. The meaning of the mare (Pegasa) and of the broken sculpture of Doryphoros is the same: Franco’s destruction of art. Picasso expressed these meanings in words and images.

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Published

2009-12-19

How to Cite

Esteban Lorente, J. F. (2009). Picasso’s mares. Cuadernos De Arte De La Universidad De Granada, 40, 353–359. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/caug/article/view/271