THE REINA SOFIA MUSEUM
Regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history – Guernica is housed in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
The grey, black, and white painting, on a canvas 11 ft 5 in tall and 25 ft 6 in across, portrays the suffering wrought by violence and chaos. Prominently featured in the composition are a gored horse, a bull, screaming women, a dead baby, a dismembered soldier, and flames.
Picasso painted Guernica at his home in Paris in response to the 26 April 1937 bombing of Guernica, a town in the Basque Country in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy at the request of the Spanish Nationalists. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and then at other venues around the world. The touring exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief. The painting soon became famous and widely acclaimed, helping to bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War that took place from 1936 to 1939.
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Face of The Great Masturbator-Dali 1929
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Pedagogical Mission Series-de Soto 1936
Lino dressed in Mourning- Echague 1932
The Family In a State of Metamorphosis-Masson 1929
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