Analysis Of Pablo Picasso's Guernic The Spanish Civil War

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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a struggle of power between the Republican government and Nationalist insurgents. On April 26, 1937, German forces—allies of the Republicans—bombed the Spanish city of Guernica. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica artifactualizes the devastation of this bombing through its extensive portrayal of senseless violence and women seeking to grapple with the pervasiveness of death; since this depiction of suffering is applicable to any war or war crime, Guernica is a universal, timeless anti-war piece.

Through its striking, incoherent portrayals of violence and suffering, Picasso’s Guernica encapsulates the tragedy and chaos of the bombing of the city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The distorted, overlapping

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