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.