In 1937, Pablo Picasso depicted an epic event in history in his "Guernica" using visual symbolism, line, space, light and color that advocates the observer the truth behind the subject of the work of art itself. The line used leads to specific images to tell the story; the space throughout the work is filled with many irregular and sharp shapes with an odd use of positive and negative space. Light and color illuminate the actual scene. Knowing and understanding how the artist uses these three fundamental tools will guide us towards the meaning and logic of the work of art. Pablo Picasso's use of line provides a sense of direction almost like the key to unlocking the meaning of the work of art. In our culture, we read from left to right to write. The artist knows this and shows us directly to the left where we see a bull, with a frozen and frightened look, as if we were watching the events taking place from his point of view, putting us in the shoes of a helpless victim. do nothing, unable to escape, and bulls are colorblind, which explains why we see everything in black and white. The bull leads us to two horrible images. One image here is a mother holding a dead child, the other an outstretched arm which leads us directly to the severed head of a soldier and his severed arm with a broken sword. Immediately after seeing these disturbing images, we see that some sort of event has taken place involving military personnel and the deaths of innocent people. The tip of the broken sword brings us to two more images, a woman who appears to be seriously injured looking at the next image of a woman holding a candle next to a light fixture. The woman looking at the light seems desperate for change, but accepts her own fate, taking one last look at the light before it goes out...... middle of paper ...... ection for a painting and Picasso defined a myriad of images to follow allowing us to bring these images together in a collective and to find their logical meaning, war causes death, as well as the suffering of innocence and eradication of soul and spirit. Positive space is a bombardment of vivid images of warlike scenarios and suffering, negating the rules of positive and negative space, but also intentionally to create real-life emotion and attention to every detail. The color used represents how the bull perceives the black and white world as an observer and, like the bull, will die to its origin. Pablo Picasso's painting of the Nazi attack on the ancient city of Guernika is a direct reflection of how art can express more than words the world around us even though the images themselves are not real or even grotesque, images always reveal truth and emotion..