In guernica, what do the bull's head, the neighing of horses, the light bulb hanging high and the woman holding the kerosene lamp represent?

& lt guernica is a masterpiece of great influence and historical significance created by Picasso in 1930s. It accused the German Nazi Air Force of bombing the Spanish town of guernica during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, killing thousands of innocent civilians, effectively exposing the evils of war and fascist atrocities. Many images in the painting reflect the painter's absorption of traditional painting elements. The image of a mother holding a dead child seems to come from the tradition of the virgin mourning for Christ; The woman with the oil lamp reminds people of the shape of the Statue of Liberty. The image of hands screaming in the air is similar to the dying posture of patriots in Goya's paintings. The image of a soldier lying on the ground with his arms outstretched seems to be related by marriage to the images in some war paintings in the early Italian Renaissance. It can be seen that Picasso is not only a bold innovator with rebellious spirit, but also an artist who respects and is proficient in tradition.

At first glance, this painting is very casual in image organization and composition arrangement, and we may even feel a little messy. This seems to be consistent with the chaotic atmosphere in which residents were scattered and frightened during the bombing. However, when we carefully examine this painting, we find that in this long picture space, all the shapes and images have been carefully conceived and scrutinized, with a strict and unified order. Although many images are dynamic, their fabric forms obviously reveal some classical meanings. We see that in the center of the picture, different bright images overlap each other to form an isosceles triangle; The central axis of the triangle just divides the whole strip picture into two squares. And the images at the left and right ends of the screen are so balanced. It can be said that this so-called pyramid composition has some similar characteristics with Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. In addition, the whole painting can be divided into four sections from left to right: the first section highlights the image of the bull; The second paragraph emphasizes the injured and struggling horse, whose dazzling electric lights look like frightened and lonely eyes; In the third paragraph, the most striking thing is that the Statue of Liberty holds a lamp and sticks its head out of the window. In the fourth paragraph, the image of the frightened man with his arms stretched out into the sky immediately attracted our attention, and his desperate gesture was unforgettable. With this elaborate composition, Picasso showed the exaggerated and distorted images full of dynamic and exciting in a unified and orderly way, which not only portrayed rich and changeable details, but also highlighted and emphasized key points, showing profound artistic skills.