Guernica is the world’s best-known work of art based on an act of war. It was painted in Paris eighty years ago by Pablo Picasso following an atrocity in the Spanish Civil War. On 26 April 1937, some ...
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The outpouring of universal grief prompted by Picasso’s most famous painting, Guernica, has reverberated throughout the world as one of the most powerful anti-war statements since its making in April ...
“I said to him, ‘Yeah, so what did they say to Picasso when he painted Guernica?” he added. “Did they say, ‘Why are you painting terrible, visionary, dark forces, when really, you should ...
Having spent much of the past decade researching my book "Picasso the Foreigner," I was reminded by this turmoil and devastation of the artist’s monumental masterpiece, "Guernica." In the spring ...