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1 dzień temu · 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.
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31 gru 2021 · 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?
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.
26 kwi 2017 · Guernica has become humanity’s shorthand for moral outrage at state-directed transgressions against civil equilibrium. Yet it has always been a “Spanish” artifact. In the 1960s, an ailing ...
Guernica was a commissioned painting. After the bombing of Guernica, Picasso was made aware of what had gone on in his country of origin. At the time, he was working on a mural for the Paris Exhibition to be held in the summer of 1937, commissioned by the Spanish Republican government.
One of the most famous 20th century paintings, Guernica was created by Picasso to express his outrage over the Nazi bombing of a Basque city in northern Spain, ordered by General Franco. Since then, this monumental black-and-white canvas has become an international symbol of genocide committed during wartime.
8 kwi 2019 · In 1937, the Spanish republic asked Picasso to create a large composition for the Paris International Exhibition. This request came just after the most destructive event of the Spanish civil war: the bombing of the small Basque village of Guernica.
