Guernica
Legs of the wounded horse: both commonplace
both huge.
In profile there is a strong similarity with the diamond
tip of the spear and the overhead gallery lights. The light is source of death.
Skull seeds the centre.
The spear also represents the second bull over which
is laid a woman with a lamp swooping with a horse
We find the skull exactly the same as we find the head –
and with the skull and head
associations of light bringer and childhood
She (childhood) represents the evil of physical drawing
and her spear is very similar to the central figure of the paintbrush –
partly because of his sin partly because they both have severed arms:
They have connections to the fallen warrior.
He is the central figure! And in his hands he holds the broken sword.
The spear penetrates and breaks the enemy in two at the crucial moment
at the centre the human skull is concealed in the body-heart.
The themes of death the bullfight the crucifixion
contain the same overlaying spirit of the horse.
The bull is very like the bull though the horse in the bull
has been stabbed by the spear and concealed below the horse
is his head of the skull penetrated by the spear within him
and the symbol stands motionless.
Och I’m becoming confused.
All I’m trying to say is ‘spear’.
The clash of light and dark
has relationship to the broad paintbrush figure,
who is Light and Dark.
and like Christ,
has the harlequin’s mystical power.
Picasso you see hides Lucifer in his drawings.
Lucifer sleeps horizontal between the wet paintbrush
and the spear of Venus the morning star – the most beautiful:
The fallen warrior is cryptic of the crucifixion.
‘Painting is drawing’ the critics protest and are driven from the market.
No. The painting is our weapon an offensive defensive magnificent sword.
Hitler stands in the centre of the battle.
He is the fallen warrior. This is his concealed portrait.
