The most recognizable of his works alongside Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Guernica became the most famous antiwar statement in ...

“Franco burned Gernika… but Franco, for me, was Spain’s saviour from everything.” Rafael Madariaga is talking about the bombing of the northern Spanish town of Gernika on April ...

Picasso’s work, “Guernica,” is one of the 20th century’s greatest works of art and a strong statement against war. In July 1936 the authoritarian Spanish general Francisco Franco had ...

Before Mariupol, before Gaza, before Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dresden and the Blitz, there was Guernica. The little Basque town in northern Spain was once the byword for state cruelty following ...

Pablo Picasso painted “Guernica,” arguably his greatest masterpiece, in response to this devastating attack, which took place during the Spanish Civil War. Possibly the most famous painting of ...

He would never return to Spain. Picasso’s painting depicts the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937. Franco’s German and Italian allies in the Spanish Civil War carpet ...

But Guernica’s enduring status was hardly foreordained. Picasso was deeply apolitical and had shown little interest in the Spanish Civil War before he created it. Nor had he ever done a public ...

Spanish confectioners have created a massive chocolate copy of Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 anti-war painting Guernica. More than 1,100 pounds of chocolate was used to recreate the famous artwork ...