11+ Picasso Guernica Pics. An accurate depiction of a cruel, dramatic situation, guernica was created to be part of the spanish pavilion at the international exposition in paris in 1937. Guernica, large oil painting by spanish artist pablo picasso named for the spanish city that german aircraft bombed in 1937.

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Pablo picasso painted guernica in 1937 for the international exposition dedicated to art and technology in modern life, celebrated that same year in the city of paris. One year before, on the 17th of july 1936, a bloody civil war that opposed the left wing republican government to a. In 1958 picasso extended the loan of the painting to moma for an indefinite period, until such time that democracy had been restored in spain.

Symbols of loss and the afterlife dominate guernica, and there.

History, transformations, meanings (university of california press, 1992). Thanks to the reproduction of. One year before, on the 17th of july 1936, a bloody civil war that opposed the left wing republican government to a. The spanish republic, government of spain, appointed picasso to paint a large mural about the.