Guernica polyptych

Guernica has given rise to numerous and controversial interpretations, a circumstance to which the voluntary removal of any tonality other than grisaille from the canvas undoubtedly contributes. Analyzing its iconography, one of the play's scholars, Anthony Blunt, divides the actors in this pyramidal composition into two groups, the first of which is made up of three animals: the bull, the wounded horse and the winged bird that It can be seen faintly in the background, on the left. The human beings make up a second group, which includes a dead soldier and several women: the one in the upper right, leaning out a window and holding out a lamp; the mother who, to the left of the canvas, screams carrying her dead son; the one that rushes in from the right; and finally, the one that cries out to heaven, with arms raised, before a house on fire.