Picasso Guernica Sketches

Picasso sympathetic to the republican cause was horrified by the reports.

Picasso guernica sketches. Is a large 1937 oil painting on canvas by spanish artist pablo picasso. The gray black and white painting which is 3 49 meters 11 ft 5 in tall and. Apr 9 2014 picasso s thought process as he worked out the composition for his great mural. Guernica is his memorial to the massacre and after hundreds of sketches the painting was done in less than a month before being delivered to the fair s spanish pavilion where it became the central attraction.

One of picasso s best known works guernica is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti war paintings in history. See more ideas about picasso sketches guernica picasso. It is exhibited in the museo reina sofía in madrid. Guernica large oil painting by spanish artist pablo picasso named for the spanish city that german aircraft bombed in 1937.

It was history s first aerial saturation bombing of a civilian population. The work received mixed reviews when it was shown at the world s fair in paris but it became an icon as it traveled the world in ensuing years.