View Picasso Guernica Background. In this video the different interpretations of this extraordinary, political painting are explained. It has since become the twentieth century's most powerful indictment against war, a painting that still feels intensely relevant today.

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The span of its references and symbols, many of which hail from completely different for picasso, this was a tragedy that required his particular form of documentation. 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. Symbols of loss and the afterlife dominate guernica, and there.

Guernica, large oil painting by spanish artist pablo picasso named for the spanish city that german aircraft bombed in 1937.

Thanks to the reproduction of. 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. History, transformations, meanings (university of california press, 1992). The guernica surprised many of picasso's followers.