Guernica: Do you see that happening?
Guernica was a quiet village.
Guernica: Do you remember who your first client was?
Guernica is a city in Spain that historically belongs to the Basques.
Guernica by Pablo Picasso The most epic and wrathful work of Pablo Picasso- the canvas“Guernica”.
Pablo Picasso("Guernica") and Georges Braque("violin and pallet")
were the inventors of Cubism by dissecting and rearranging motifs.
The bombings of Guernica, Rotterdam
and Warsaw were tactical missions in support of military operations and were not intended as strategic terror attacks.
Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso In 1937, while working on the famous“Guernica”, Picasso painted several paintings depicting
the head of a sobbing woman.
After the bombing of Guernica in 1937 and the Rotterdam Blitz in 1940,
it was commonly assumed that terror bombing was a part of Luftwaffe doctrine.
In 1938, in an effort to raise funds for the Spanish cause, Guernica toured Britain where,
in Manchester, it was nailed to the wall of a disused car showroom.
Guernica was painted with the full force of raw grief,
by an artist who was well aware that he was working in the polemic tradition of Goya and Dix.
Picasso's Guernica, a powerful indictment of fascism,
was so closely associated with anti-war sentiment that during the Vietnam War, protestors would hold vigils in New York's Museum of Modern Art, where the painting is held.