Guernica

Guernica

Guernica is Paul Picasso's famous picture, painted in May and June, 1937, which title alludes to the bombardment of Guernica on April 26, 1937, in the course of the Spanish Civil war, on the part of the Legion Condor German and the Legionary Italian Aviation, which they were attacking in favor of the revolted ones against the government of the Second Spanish Republic. 

The Guernica is an oil on linen, with a few dimensions of 3,50 x 7,80 m. In spite of his title, and of the circumstances in which it was realized, there is in him no concrete reference to the bombardment of Guernica not to the Spanish Civil war. It is not, therefore, a narrative, but symbolic picture. It is painted using only the white and black, and a varied range of gray.

 His interpretation is an object of polemic, but his artistic value is out of discussion. Not only it is considered to be one of the most important works of the art of the XXth century, but there has turned in authentic " icon of the XXth century ", symbol of the terrible sufferings that the war inflicts on the human beings