Picasso himself explained the symbolism of the image, saying that the bull symbolized brutality, representing the murderous Germany and fascists, the wounded horse symbolized the suffering Spain, and the shining lights symbolized light and hope...... Of course, there are also many depictions of real-life situations in the painting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 On the left side of the picture, a woman is crying with a dead baby in her arms, and below her is a soldier holding flowers and a broken sword and falling to the ground with her arms outstretched. On the right side of the painting, a man jumping from a building raises his hands and screams in the sky, and behind him, there is a raging flame. Not far from him, the woman who had run away was so panicked that her hind legs seemed to be unable to keep up and fell far behind. All this is a true portrayal of the victims of the terrible air bombing. The scattered limbs tell the cruelty of the German fascist humanity at that time from all angles

Many of the images in the painting reflect the artist's absorption of traditional painting elements. The image of the mother holding her dead child in her arms seems to have originated from the tradition of mourning Christ's Madonna; a woman holding an oil lamp, reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty; The image of raising his hands to the sky and exclaiming in exclamation is not without similarities with the righteous posture of the patriot in Goya's painting; The image of the soldier who fell to the ground with his arms outstretched seems to have a relationship with the image in some of the early war paintings of the Italian Renaissance. This shows that Picasso was not only a bold innovator with a rebellious spirit, but also an artist who respected and mastered tradition.

At first glance, the organization of the image and the arrangement of the composition seem very random, and we may even find it a little messy. This seems to be consistent with the chaotic atmosphere in which the population fled in all directions during the bombing. However, when we examine this painting closely, we find that in this long strip of picture space, all the forms and images are arranged through careful conception and scrutiny, and there is a strict and unified order. Although many of the images are full of movement, their composition clearly exudes a certain classical meaning. We see that in the very center of the picture, different bright images overlap each other, forming an isosceles triangle; The central axis of the triangle divides the entire strip into two squares. And the images at the left and right ends of the picture are balanced with each other in this way. It can be said that this so-called pyramidal composition has some similar qualities to the composition of Leonardo da Vinci (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 a bull; The second stanza emphasizes the wounded and struggling horse, and the dazzling electric light above it looks like a frightened, lonely eye; In the third paragraph, the most conspicuous is the "Lady Liberty" who sticks her head out of the window with a lamp; And in the fourth section, the figure of the frightened man with his arms stretched out to the sky immediately draws our attention, and his desperate gesture is unforgettable. With this well-organized composition, Picasso expressed the exaggerated and deformed images full of movement and excitement in a unified and orderly manner, depicting rich and varied details, highlighting and emphasizing the key points, and showing profound artistic skills.

Here, Picasso still adopted the artistic language of clip art. However, the visual effect of the cut-and-paste in the painting is not achieved by real cut-and-paste means, but is expressed by hand-drawing. The "cut-and-paste" graphic with one piece on top of the other is limited to black, white, and gray, thus effectively highlighting the tension and horror of the picture.