The United Nations apologized Monday for mischaracterizing Pablo Picasso’s famous anti-war painting “Guernica” in a tapestry reproduction on its website. The large oil painting – on display in Spain’s ...
Rage, in oil on canvas / Picasso's response to the pure evil of war still unnerves those who wage it
," Pablo Picasso admonished an interviewer in 1945. "It's an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy." The artist's statement was both candid and curiously timed. Eight years had ...
Picasso’s Guernica mixes stark images of agonising humans and animals to depict the horror of the bombing of the small Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937 during Spain’s civil war. Close to 80 ...
Pablo Picasso had been searching for three months for something to paint in April 1937. Living in Paris, the Spanish artist had been given a commission to produce a mural for the Spanish Pavilion of ...
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