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Picasso’s
great mural, Guernica, has been seen as the symbolic painting of the
horrors of war its destruction, its cruelty. The beauty of the painting,
however, has another source.When the fascist bombs struck the Spanish
town of Guernica in the middle of the night of April 26, 1937, the
Picasso felt horror. Picasso's Guernica has impact that has affected
the world. Here, in Pablo Picasso's angry memorial to Guernica, killing
is presented in flat, clearly outlined, yet agonizingly cut off shapes.
. Picasso's great work of the 20th century. |
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