What are the christian symbols in Picasso`s Guernica?
Guernica the painting is full of Picasso’s signature imagery such as the Minotaur, the depiction of the suffering of women and images of Christian martyrdom. While the lady who peers through the window with a candle wears a look of genuine horror on her face when she discovers the scene revealed under the candlelight, the lady beneath her stumbles, half standing and half kneeling in obvious pain towards the hope of survival and rescue which the candlelight seems to provide. The other two women show a notably higher degree of anguish: On the right one has her arms up in despair as she tries to escape the flames burning around her, and on the far left, the distressing scene of the mother, who holds her dead child, has her head tilted backwards in an unbearable wail of torment. It is interesting to note that of the thousands who suffered the onslaught, it is women whom Picasso depicts. This was not however unusual for the artist who painted numerous weeping women, dancing bathers and vuln
