Instructions for how to Leave Peer Comments on the Course Blog

1. Agree of disagree with the statement made by your peers
2. Use the material in class to justify your post
3. Pose a question

Artist: Ibera Paco

Description: This painting, created in 1939, was created to show events at the end of the Spanish Civil war.


Guiding Questions:
1. What is the overall mood of this painting, and what do you see as evidence of this mood?
2. How does the artist use the element line to help tell a story?
3. What does this painting say about the Spanish Civil War?

Pablo Picasso's "Guernica"

Description: Pablo Picasso created this abstract painting in 1937, depicting the bombing of Guernica, Spain.

Guiding Questions:
1. What is the overall mood of this painting, and what do you see as evidence of this mood?
2. How does the artist use the element line to help tell a story?
3. What does this painting say about the Spanish Civil War?

MODEL EXAMPLE: Francisco Goya's "The Third of May, 1808. The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid.

Description: Goya painted this in 1814 to show the random executions of the Spanish civilians in Madrid by the French.

Guiding questions:
1. What is the overall mood of this painting, and what do you see as evidence of this mood?
2. How does the artist use the element line to help tell a story?
3. What does this painting say about the Spanish Civil War?

MODEL: Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808 The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid

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