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Guernica Research Paper

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In northwest Spain, bombs were dropped on Guernica, a small Basque market town by the German air force. This caused the Spanish Civil war from 1936 to 1939. The bombing lasted three and a half hours killing hundreds of people. While in Paris, news of the bombing in his country reached Pablo Picasso and he was devastated. This event became an inspiration to him to paint a huge mural that was called Guernica, and becomes the most memorable anti war image in the twentieth century.
The piece constitutes a universal indictment of war without including objects that are directly associated with modern warfare by showing an abstract of different objects that portray the individuals that were bombed. In the left of the image is a bull; in Spain bullfighting

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