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Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [1] [2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [3]
The town was devastated, though the Biscayan assembly and the Oak of Gernika survived. Picasso painted his mural sized Guernica to commemorate the horrors of the bombing. In its final form, Guernica is an immense black and white, 3.5 metre (11 ft) tall and 7.8 metre (23 ft) wide mural painted in oil. The mural presents a scene of death ...
After a brief voice-over by Jacques Pruvost describing the bombing of Guernica on 26 April 1937, María Casares recites a poem by Paul Eluard on the subject of that atrocity, accompanied by imagery from numerous paintings, drawings, and sculptures produced by Pablo Picasso between 1920 and 1949, particularly Guernica (1937).
March 12 – Eveleen Tennant Myers, English portrait photographer (b. 1856) April 19 – Martin Conway, English art critic (b. 1856) May – Peter Waals, Dutch-born furniture designer (b. 1870) July 26 – Gerda Taro, German-born photographer, killed in Spanish Civil War (b. 1910) October 29 – Élie Faure, French art historian (b. 1873)
Pablo Picasso, 1913, Compotier avec fruits, violon et verre (Bowl with Fruit, Violin, and Wineglass), charcoal, chalk, watercolor, oil paint, and coarse charcoal or pigment in binding medium on applied papers, mounted on cardboard, 64.8 x 49.5 cm (25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches), Philadelphia Museum of Art
A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the work of Pablo Picasso and could sell for millions, according to experts.. Luigi Lo Rosso ...
A painting thought to be a Picasso original was found over 60 years ago by a junk dealer in the basement of a villa on the island of Capri, Italy Italian art experts think the painting could ...
The work is one of Picasso's cubist works, where its subject matter revolved around, “The most notorious bombing of the century.” [10] The artwork spans 7.77m wide and 3.49 high. The episode outlines that the message intended from the artwork was to exemplify the horrors and damages of war and act as an anti-war symbol.