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This site contains my research proposal, a survey, and supportive studies- all focused on:

How Does Picasso's Guernica use Visual Rhetoric to Create Emotional Identification (pathos) with Civilian Suffering

This page serves as a central hub for my research project. The sections that follow include a detailed proposal outlining my aims and methods, a survey instrument designed to collect primary data and a set of supporting studies that provide empirical grounding for my claims. Together they offer a complete picture of my investigative process. 

This research is a work in progress, and I welcome thoughtful engagement with the materials presented.

 

Below you will see the central focus of my research, Pablo Picasso's Guernica. This is the image that every participant will view to register their emotional response.

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Pablo Picasso’s 1937 masterpiece “Guernica”

 

The Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) was a violent ideological struggle between left-wing Republicans and right-wing nationalist rebels, sparked by a failed military coup. It was a fight over the political future of Spain, pitting, democracy, socialism, and regional autonomy against fascism, authoritarianism, and traditional conservative institutions like the church. (Holocaust encyclopedia website) It is this struggle of power that birthed this painting. Where Picasso was commissioned, he intended to paint something entirely different, when the town of Guernica was thereafter bombed, giving Picasso a vivid and impassioned response to convey this devastation to the world through an International Art Exhibition in Paris.