In 1937, Pablo Picasso depicts an epic event in history in his "Guernica" using visual symbolism, line, space, light and color that argue to the viewer the truth behind the subject of the work of art itself. The line used leads to specific images to tell the story; the space throughout the work is filled with many jagged and sharp shapes with strange use of positive and negative space. The light and color illuminate the real scene. Knowing and understanding how the artist uses these three fundamental tools will guide us towards the meaning and logic of the artwork. The use of Pablo Picasso's line gives a sense of direction almost like a key to unlock the meaning of the artwork. In our culture we read from the left to write. The artist knows this and points us directly to the left where we see a bull, with a frightened and frozen look, as if we were watching the events unfolding from his point of view, putting ourselves in the shoes of a victim incapable of doing nothing, incapable to escape, and the fact that bulls are color blind leads to why we see everything in black and white. The bull leads us to two frightening images. One image is a mother holding a dead child here, the other an outstretched arm leading us directly to the severed head of a soldier and his severed arm with a broken sword. Immediately after seeing these disturbing images we realize that some kind of event has occurred involving the military and the death of innocent people. The tip of the broken sword brings us to two more images, a woman who appears badly injured staring at the next image of a woman holding a candle next to a chandelier. The woman staring into the light seems desperate for a change, but accepts her fate, taking one last look at the light before it goes out... Picasso set a myriad of images to follow allowing us to gather those images into one collective and recover its logical meaning, war causes death, together with the suffering of innocence and the uprooting of the soul and spirit. Positive space is a bombardment of vivid images of war scenarios and suffering, which deny the rules of positive and negative space, but are also intentionally made to create the emotion of real life and attention to all the details. The color used is how the bull perceives the black and white world as an observer and, like the bull, in its origin will die. The painting of the Nazi attack on the ancient city of Guernika by Pablo Picasso is a direct reflection of how art can express the world around us more than words, even if the images themselves are not real or even grotesque, the images reveal however truth and emotion.