Pablo Picasso. Guernica (1937)

Guernica

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Guernica (1937). Pablo Picasso

Women, men and animals shout and die defenseless under the German bombing. The work denounces the horror, the pain and destruction sown by the Nazi in the city of Guernica.

It has since become an antiwar symbol and denounces the senseless horrors and deaths wars always cause everywhere. The artist geometrized shapes as in his Cubist stage, appealed to emotional distortion of Expressionism to transmit the tearing and agony.

Picasso went back to Paris which was under German occupation during the war, in 1940. A Nazi officer entered his studio and asked the painter while pointing to a photo of Guernica stuck to the wall: Did you do this?” And Picasso, brave and shameless as always, answered: “No, you did.”

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