"Guernica," one of Pablo Picasso's most spectacular and controversial pictures, has been acquired for a two week's exhibit by the Fogg Art Museum, it was announced yesterday. The painting, which ...
“Guernica,” an 11- by 25-foot painting, is a political, anti-war statement in response to the bombing of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain. Through the symbolic depiction of death and ...
In the late 1970s, nationalist vigilantes tried to destroy Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. Today the painting itself is safe — but the museum in which it is housed has again become the focus of ...
For many of us, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, a mourning of the wanton destruction of Francisco Franco’s Spain, is a long way from Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, a Nazi-loving paean that used ...