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Pablo Picasso painted his large scale **Guernica (1937)** in response to the bombing of the Spanish town by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Recommended Viewing
[|Looking again at Picasso’s Guernica - T J Clark] - In his Sydney Ideas lecture art historian T J Clark discussed Guernica in detail, examining how a work of such enduring political resonance emerged from Picasso's deeply private and "difficult" artistic universe. He takes the audience through the step-by-step creation of Guernica, taking advantage of the set of photographs of the work in progress taken by Dora Maar.

Recommended Listening
[|Revisiting Picasso's Guernica] - Guernica, the painting by Pablo Picasso, took five weeks to complete from first sketch to finished product in 1937. After more than 70 years, it remains a touchstone for protest against the horrors of war.

[|Is Picasso's Guernica the great 20th Century painting?]

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Elsewhere on the Web
[|letters at 3am] [|@GuernicaMag]

Wikipedia
[|Guernica]

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