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Bookmark or Share- Guernica, 1937 by Pablo PicassoGuernica, 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.
- Rethinking Guernica. Picasso's Twentieth-Century Work-Icon Close-UpTranscending the specific event it was based on, Guernica is a timeless, universal symbol, vilifying the implacable and criminal destruction of war, and opening artistic debate on the representation of armed conflict.
- Guernica - WikipediaGuernica (/ ɡ ɜːr ˈ n iː k ə, ˈ ɡ ɜːr n ɪ k ə /, 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.
- Guernica (Picasso) - WikipediaGuernica (Spanish: [ɡeɾˈnika]; Basque:) is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
- Guernica | Description, History, & Facts | BritannicaGuernica, 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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