When the Nazis decided to wade into the Spanish Civil War in 1937 in support of their fascist ally Francisco Franco, they did so by dropping bombs indiscriminately on the Basque town of Guernica. No ...

Pablo Picasso was something of a latecomer to political activism, having embraced it only after reaching his 50s. Prior to that, his sole dedication was to himself, and the belief that his genius ...

“Guernica” at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (photo by Manuel Litran/Paris Match via Getty Images) Consider it your new go-to resource for anything “Guernica”-related. A new, freely accessible ...

MADRID (AP) — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a one-day visit Tuesday to Spain and took the opportunity to view Pablo Picasso's “Guernica.” It was a move laden with symbolism. Among the ...

Even powerful politicians like Colin Powell can flinch before the artistic power of an artist like Pablo Picasso, says an incoming University of Victoria professor. Art historian Alan Antliff said ...

With the large Cubist-inspired painting, Picasso put a human face on “collateral damage.” In the wake of history’s first saturation aerial bombardment, Picasso wove the shattered shards of that ...

To say that I was awed is an understatement. Standing in front of Picasso’s 11.5 ft. x 25.5 ft. celebrated painting Guernicais one of the most sobering encounters I’ve had the displeasure of ...

Perhaps no twentieth-century painting has captured the cruel effects of war as powerfully as Picasso's Guernica. For the first time we can understand the entire history of Guernica both as an artistic ...

The exhibition Pity and Terror in Picasso, opening at the Museo Reina Sofía in April 2017, 80 years after Guernica’s first showing, will have the great mural at ...

Before Mariupol, before Gaza, before Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dresden and the Blitz, there was Guernica. The little Basque town in northern Spain was once the byword for state cruelty following the ...