DESCRIBING A FEELING: GUERNICA BY PICASSO

Guernica was painted by Picasso as a desparate call for international help. He was trying to make European people be awared of the destruction and the pain that was causing Civil War in Spain, specially in Guernica, a city populated almost by women and child only, that was savagely bombed by the German planes.
The painting can be summary just in one word: pain. We can see that pain everywhere; in the mother that is holding the lifeless body of her son, in the person that is trapped in the flames and in all the misshapen bodies that are lying down everywhere.
Another recourse that is used by Picasso to exaggerate the sorrow is the bigger size of the characters in comparison with the architecture that lends atmosphere to the scene.