Guernica

Today I am going to write about one of the most representative paintings of the Cubist movement. The piece I am referring to is Guernica, created by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Its composition is mostly dark, dynamic and non-realistic. This painting represents the horrors of war and the deep impact and sorrow the people from Guernica felt when bombed.
My feelings towards Guernica are a complex mix of anguish and astonishment. It is really depressing that, for this painting to exist, there had to be such an horrendous event. Nevertheless, I feel pretty impressed by Picasso's capability to recreate the bombing. Every character in the artwork seems incredibly human and each one of them represents an unique feeling. For instance, the bull we see at the left is a symbol of Spain, the country where those events happened, and the woman right beneath it is the vivid image of a mother crying due to her child's loss.
To conclude, I would like to say that Picasso is one of my favourite artists and his ability to shape feelings seems amazing to me.

Practices from class

Some days ago we practiced the three ways of pre-writing that we could use when trying to write an essay. These three ways are:
1- Making a list
2- Freewriting
3- A visual map
I'm going to post my practices here. The topic I used to make them was "My country".

Making a list
-Spanish cuisine (discussion between South's cuisine defenders and North's cuisine defenders)
-Spanish education (is it a good educational system? What are its flaws?)
-Spanish politics (Catalonia's situation? Our government measures against Catalonian independence)
-Culture (bullfighting, is it culture or animal torture?)
-Spanish football teams (Spain as a team, is it better Real Madrid or F. C. Barcelona?)

Freewriting
Spain is a developed country. But is it really? Can we talk about development when our culture includes torture to bulls bull torture? Is it Spain so developed when our government's been accused multiple times of stealing public money? Today's situation of Spain may not be the most appropiate to talk about when talking about development, especially when half of our country is still stuck at something as easy as writing an essay. Another issue in our country is how deficient our education is. Most of the children don't learn how to write appropiately, not even when thay arrive at to highschool. However, not only education, culture and politics are twisted up, but also social questions, like gender inequality, poverty or home loss.

Visual map