Pablo Picasso, Guernica – Smarthistory

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas, 349 x 776 cm (Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid)

Pablo Picasso, Guernica

Paintings of this size had historically exalted war, but this one suggests that war is anything but heroic.

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