Context - Picasso's Guernica

This piece of work can be viewed from several positions.
It is a historical piece of work, important by way of it's providence and who painted it, at a time when photography was available, it also said something about the craft and medium of painting. It used news print and was in black and white, like the photo journalism to signal the propaganda and media manipulation that was prevalent in the day (and still occurs today)

It can be viewed from a political standpoint, it's content is about the civil war from the position of the socialist party - against the cruel fascist regime.
In that context, it is socio-political, it is about the people of Spain.

The symbolic representation within the painting are perhaps lost on modern culture without further study, but the bull represents Spain, the painting also features the all seeing eye of God, and the broken sword signalling the fallen army.
The wailing mother weeps over her child as a literal translation of the pain and suffering endured by the people.

In my own work, I try and not take a very literal view of what I am depicting (unless it is specifically called for)
I try to create images that have meanings on multiple levels for different people. An image can appear sexual or enticing to one but the intention by the creator was something different.

Logical Fallacy
One must be wary of logic, as it can lead to us accepting or assuming things that are not true.

An example of this would be;

(1) All men are mortal.
(2) Socrates is a man.
Therefore:
(3) Socrates is mortal.

It is  not possible that both (1) and (2) are true and (3) is false, so this argument is deductively valid.

Whilst this may seem common sense, when considered in a modern day example of newspapers reporting youth crime;

The newspapers report many stories of crime and vandalism

They all feature today's unruly youth

therefore one could logically asume that all youth are involved in crime and vandalism (or are bad)

The newspaper has repeated its message or view in a redundant way and as a result has influenced the reader into thinking that that is the truth and the only variation of the truth.

This can also lead to people fearing the youth section of society and lead to issues - one recent example -