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Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3] It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. [4]
Guernica, large oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso named for the Spanish city that German aircraft bombed in 1937. The work received mixed reviews when it was shown at the world’s fair in Paris, but it became an icon as it traveled the world in ensuing years.
Guernica, 1937 by Pablo Picasso. Probably Picasso's most famous work, Guernica is certainly his most powerful political statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Guernica. Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz Picasso) Malaga, Spain, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973. Date: 1937 (May 1st-June 4th, Paris) Technique: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 349,3 x 776,6 cm. Entry date: Observations: The government of the Spanish Republic acquired the mural "Guernica" from Picasso in 1937.
Guernica (/ ɡ ɜːr ˈ n iː k ə, ˈ ɡ ɜːr n ɪ k ə /, [3] Spanish pronunciation: [ɡeɾˈnika]), officially Gernika (pronounced) in Basque, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain.
In 1937, Picasso created an anti-war painting called "Guernica." Here we will take a look at this modern art masterpiece. It's one of Picasso's most famous paintings, but do you know the story and symbolism behind it?
Painted in the wake of a 1937 fascist bombing, "Guernica" has grown to stand for war atrocities experienced all over the world.
A flight of bombers from Nazi Germany’s Condor Legion and Italy’s Aviazione Legionaria pummelled the Basque town Gernika for three hours on April 26, 1937. As incendiary bombs rained down on the...
Created as an anti-war protest piece in response to the 1937 aerial bombing of a small town in northern Spain, Guernica quickly became one of Pablo Picasso’s most-recognized Cubist paintings—and for very good reason.
On 26 April 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, the Basque city of Gernika was bombed by the German and Italian armies as a show of support for the nationalist forces fighting against the government of the Second Republic. This event inspired Pablo Picasso to paint Guernica.