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GuernicaLarge oil painting (3.5 m x 7.8 m/11 ft 5 in x 25 ft 6 in) by Pablo Picasso as a mural for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1937 (now in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid), inspired by the bombing of Guernica, the seat of the Basque parliament during the Spanish Civil War. The painting, executed entirely in black, white, and grey, was the culmination of years of experimentation. It has since become a symbol of the senseless destruction of war. |
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| Picasso's anti-war mural Guernica and Aristophanes' drama Lysistrata are renowned examples of art forms that alerted and continue to alert society to the horrors of war. The Guernica Oak was a historic tree that stood in front of Guernica's council building in the Basque region of Spain, having survived the infamously brutal 1937 bombing that inspired Picasso's masterpiece, "Guernica. A humanistic composition juxtaposing several familiar concepts in Salim's oeuvre: eternal calamity, motherhood, and fertility, is as timeless and universal in its iconography as Picasso's Guernica. |
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