Guernica

Pablo Picasso · 1937

Picasso’s response to the Nazi Condor Legion bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, painted for the 1937 Paris Exposition. The monochrome palette and newsprint-stipple textures mimic the grim, grainy reportage of the event, while cubist fragmentation shatters the bull, horse, and screaming figures into an icon of anti-war suffering.

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