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Tiled wall in Guernica, the inscription below, written in Basque, expresses the desire to have the Picasso painting of the same name transferred to the city [2] (it is currently exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía). Guernica (/ ɡɜːrˈniːkə, ˈɡɜːrnɪkə /, [3] Spanish pronunciation: [ɡeɾˈnika]), officially Gernika (pronounced [ɡernika]) in Basque, is a town in the province of ...
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]
Bombing of Guernica. On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco 's rebel Nationalist faction by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe 's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name ...
It attracted extra attention because the exposition took place during the Spanish Civil War. [11] The pavilion included Pablo Picasso 's Guernica, the now-famous depiction of the horrors of war, [12] as well as Alexander Calder 's sculpture Mercury Fountain and Joan Miró 's painting Catalan peasant in revolt. [13]
The Weeping Woman (French: La Femme qui pleure[1]) is a series of oil on canvas [2] paintings by Pablo Picasso, the last of which was created in late 1937. The paintings depict Dora Maar, Picasso's mistress and muse. The Weeping Woman paintings were produced by Picasso in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War and are closely associated with the iconography in his ...
Under the Spanish Franco regime during the Spanish Civil War, the Basque language was banned, the rights of Basques were reduced, and the Basque city of Guernica was bombed on behalf of Franco by the Nazis. [1][2] In response, the Basque nationalist group, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) was established in 1959 and was responsible for the deaths of ...
Andres Valencia's 'Invasion of Ukraine' piece, inspired by Picasso’s 1937 anti-war masterpiece, will be available on September 9.
During the war, Picasso chose to stay in France and devoted himself to three classic themes: still lifes, the female nude, and the portrait. One of the first works is Chat saissant un oiseau (Cat seizing a bird) from April 22, 1939, illustrating the fear of the painter faced with the threat of a war in Europe with the capture of Prague by the ...