48+ Color Picasso Guernica Painting Pics. The color palette picasso chose is a somber. Not only did the artist use lack of color to express the starkness of the aftermath of the bombing, he also specially ordered house paint that had a minimum amount of gloss.
Primarily, the painting seeks to depict the 1937 air raid on guernica during the spanish civil war.
Not only did the artist use lack of color to express the starkness of the aftermath of the bombing, he also specially ordered house paint that had a minimum amount of gloss. Picasso black and white explores this artist's lifelong interest in stripping colour out of painting: Picasso in guernica does not want us to passively look, but to imagine this terrible moment from the inside. It is a black and white.
