Whats the Fuss About the Guernica Painting by Picasso?
What’s the Fuss About the Guernica Painting by Picasso?”What’s the Guernica painting that Picasso created about, is it really such a huge size, and why is so much fuss made over it?” — GordianAnswer: Guernica is one of Picasso’s most famous paintings; some regard it as his best painting. It’s a mural that’s 11 feet 6 inches high and 25 feet 8 inches wide (3,5 x 7,76 meters) in size, and Picasso painted it on commission for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica shows the bombing during the Spanish Civil War by Nazi Germany of the Basque city of Guernica on 26 April 1937 in support of the Francisco Franco’s Nationalists. Some historians list is as the first-ever aerial bombarbment of a city; around 1,600 people were killed and some 900 injured. Picasso’s painting doesn’t focus on the actual bombing, but instead the horrors of war and the misery that results. The symbolism he used includes a dying horse, a woman caught in a burning building, and an anguished moth
