Tragedy in Art

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This paper portrays that Pablo Picasso?s 1937 mural, "Guernica: Testimony of War", is the epitome of tragedy in art as described by David Hume in his essay, "Of Tragedy".

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"The mural is based on an incident that happened in 1934. Hitler had come to the aid of Francisco Franco by sending planes to destroy the non-military village of Guernica in Spain's Basque region. The entire town was decimated by the three hour siege. "Picasso found himself interested not so much in what the bombing and burning of Guernica meant politically, but rather what they meant in metaphor, what they meant in the context of individual human lives. He wanted to address emotively the destruction of his beloved country, and he already possessed a personal visual language with which to do so, one anchored in the violence, suffering, and passion of the bullring, as well as in the centuries-old Spanish belief in the essential tragedy of life, one embodied by the figure of a grieving woman, La Llorona" (Martin 38). "

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