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] . It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. [4]

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.

2024年12月11日 · 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.

The government of the Spanish Republic acquired the mural "Guernica" from Picasso in 1937. When World War II broke out, the artist decided that the painting should remain in the custody of New York's Museum of Modern Art for safekeeping until the conflict ended.

2021年12月31日 · 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?

2022年5月18日 · Picasso created the Guernica painting at his Parisian residence in reaction to the bombing of Guernica, a town in northern Spain, at the suggestion of the Spanish Nationalists on the 26th of April 1937. Guernica by Picasso depicts …

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.