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Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy at the request of the Spanish Nationalists.
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.
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, 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.
And while many of Picasso's paintings are remembered for their trailblazing appearances, only one is known for its powerful anti-war message: the 1937 painting, Guernica. At about 11 feet tall and 25 feet across, this massive work is visually arresting for its scale, composition, and unusual grayscale palette. Its dark subject matter was fueled ...
Picasso’s painting is based on the events of April 27, 1937, when Hitler’s powerful German air force, acting in support of Franco, bombed the village of Guernica in northern Spain, a city of no strategic military value. It was history’s first aerial saturation bombing of a civilian population.
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.
Guernica by Pablo Picasso (article) | Khan Academy. Modernisms 1900-1980. Course: Modernisms 1900-1980 > Unit 3. Lesson 1: Cubism. Cubist Sculpture II. The Case for Abstraction. Picasso's Early Work. Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein. Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein.
Picasso’s Guernica: The Story from a Bombing to a Painting In June of 1937, Pablo Picasso created a masterpiece to convey the negative effects of war by recreating a real event. Guernica is a city that the Nazis bombed during the Spanish Civil War .
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.