Picasso's Guernica

The tortured faces of those in pain make themselves prevalent in the painting, their attention focused on the light overhead, as if looking for some salvation that would not come. It is a colorless mass, dominated by greys, blacks, and whites, with large-open spaces covered by jungles of figures, a claustrophobic nightmarish depression of no-space and dull color. From the dead, few survivors reach up to the light, asking for a moment of peaceful lack of worry, but this is not granted to them. The light shining covers only a small space; the rest is left for the demons.