Riversprings Art Students Create Giant Replica of PIcasso's Guernica

Mrs. Sutton’s 7th grade art classes at Riversprings Middle School recently completed an “enormous” project.  Each of the 32 students was given a 2 ¾” x 3” portion of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica”.  Picasso painted the original 12’ x 26’ masterpiece in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War after the small village of Guernica was bombed.  Approximately 1600 civilians were either killed or wounded.  In the Cubist style, Picasso shows the horrors of war as people are shown fleeing their homes, running from flames and a mother clutching her dead child.  Picasso included much symbolism for evil, torture and suffering. 

Each student enlarged their “piece of the puzzle” four times larger or 11” x 12”.  Students had to constantly work together to make sure their piece matched with the surrounding students’ pieces.  Students learned to use drawing pencils to help create the many different greys and black values they observed.  When finished, all of the pieces were assembled to create Riversprings version of “Guernica”.  The completed project measures approximately 3’10” x 8’ and is hanging in the cafeteria at Riversprings Middle School.

Students working on the Guernica project were:  Landon Austin, John Bach, Roxanne Baker, Henry Barbree, Hunter Barlowe, Austin Bess, Aiden Boyett, Andrew Brown, Brianna Bryant, Andrea Chapman, Zane Daniels, Arien Hart, Malik Hutchinson, Libby Inlow,  Sheldon Johnson, Drew Keith, Kody Kendall, Kenny Light, Callie McCarl, Renee McCormick, Allison Metcalf, Daulton Nettles,  Jonathan Pollock, Savannah Poulson, Brook Roddenberry, Justin Row, Ryan Stewart, Taylor Thompson, Daniel Veaudry, Amy Walker, and Kieshia White.  Special thanks to eighth grade students Wyomi Creel, Daniel Faircloth, Ciara Harris, Courtney Mauldin and Isaac Roe for helping to put the pieces together and create the display.

- Submitted by RMS Art Teacher Mina Sutton

This article originally published on December 2, 2008.

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