View Guernica (1937) – Pablo Picasso Pics. Guernica, picasso's most important political painting, has remained relevant as a work of art and as a symbol of protest, and it kept the memory of the basque town's nightmare alive. But the mural called guernica is not at all what pablo picasso has in mind when he agrees to paint the centerpiece for the spanish pavilion of the 1937 for three months, picasso has been searching for inspiration for the mural, but the artist is in a sullen mood, frustrated by a decade of turmoil in his.

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So what actually happened in guernica on april 26, 1937 is that german fighter planes started an air raid that lasted two hours and resulted in bombs weighing up to a thousand pounds dropping on the innocent town of guernica. Pablo picasso peint guernica 1937. Museo nacional centro de arte reina sofía, madrid, spain.

It is one of his best known works.

The spanish republic, government of spain, appointed picasso to paint a large mural about the. Guernica was ordered to picasso from the spanish government which was going to place it on the world exhibition in paris. Madrid, museo nacional centro de arte reina sofia. Oil on canvas, 350 cm x 782 cm copyright ars, ny.