Guernica By Pablo Picasso: Painting Analysis

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Guernica is a painting made by Pablo Picasso to depict the horrible event that happened in April 28, 1937 at old Basque capitol city in northern Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica is a city that was used to test air raids by Nazis, and it was allowed with conspiracy of General Francisco Franco who accepted their aid to test air missiles weapons in Spain. When Picasso heard this, he made a painting to portray that General Franco is a terrible man and complot with Nazis to massacre innocent and helpless people. Picasso refuse to allow the paint reside in Spain while Franco was in power. After Franco died in 1975, the painting was moved back into Spain. The painting is located in Madrid, Spain and has been there since 1975. It is twenty-five

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