Guernica
Pablo Picasso, 1937
Oil on canvas
349 × 776 cm, 137.4 × 305.5 in
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
"Guernica is a monumental painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight bombers, on April 26, 1937 during
the Spanish Civil War. The attack killed between 250 and 1,600 people, and many more were injured."
"The choice to paint in black and white conveys the chronological nearness of a newspaper photograph and the lifelessness war affords."
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