Picasso and the War

Today I had an enlightened discussion with my peers about the effects on art during the era of World War One. One very pertinent figure during this time period was Pablo Picasso. His abstract Cubism gave his perspectives on the looming and eventual war in an entirely new manner showcasing it from that classic "Picasso" standard.

One of my peers pointed out Picasso's hidden bull skull in the middle of the picture. The bull skull of course representing his native country of Spain in one way or another.

The thing that stuck out the most to me though was the obvious human suffering and chaos that was being produced from this tension of battle. Of course all of these things were heightened when the war did actually start, yet this drastic representation shows us the enormity of Pablo's early premonitions of what was to come