"Guernica"

As I was reading through the book I came across this painting, it is called "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso. I read a summary on the painting that was in the book, and it said that "this is often considered his greatest work.". "Guernica" was inspired by the civil war in Spain and the bombing that took place in Guernica. At first glance I can tell that this painting is sad by the color and the expressions on faces, but I couldn't tell it was inspired by something that impacted and entire country. In the book it explained what the people were doing; the woman on the left is holding a dead child, in the center there is a speared horse and on the right there is a woman falling from a burning building. I can't help but keep staring at this painting to try and see what else is going on. One thing that makes me the most curious is the figure on the far left that looks like a bull, I am also wondering if the person on the right is dragging a severed leg behind her. This painting also has a lot of dark colors and shades of gray. I am actually kind of disturbed by this painting because in my last post I compared Picasso's painting "The Three Musicians" to what it would be like in a child's mind, this painting is something that I would certainly never want to see in a child's mind. I think that the color and the cubist techniques, of sharp lines and geometric shapes, definitely heightens the effect of this painting.