ing. It gives this otherwise depressing work a hint of hope, a hope for something better. *It is widely recognized that Picasso was an extremely patriotic Spaniard. This patriotism is easily seen in any of his historical paintings of this time, most notably Guernica, in which he vividly depicts the horrors and atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. In Guernica, a massive mural painted on commission, Picasso uses the bull and other animals as well as screaming human forms to express his contempt for Franco's regime as a overall feeling of death is felt from this painting (Chipp).*The oviform, as Marrero explains, "is obtained by describing a circumference and then drawing a diameter, followed by a semi-circle on each radius, on one side and the other of the original diameter." By then erasing the diameter, the circle has been in half in the only other possible way. This can be interpreted as being symbolic of the contrasting dualisms in life. Picasso often used this concept in his paintings, especially after 1937. Bull's Skull, Fruit, PitcherTete de Taureau, Fruit, PitchetPablo PicassoSpanish(French School), 1881-1973Oil on canvas, 1939...
