Who painted Guernica and in what circumstances?

Answer 1

Guernica is one of the most famous paintings by Pablo Picasso in which the painter condemned the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain on April 26, 1937.

Answer 2

Paablo Picasso painted Guernica after the Town was bombed by the Germans, and it was his protest against the inhumanity of war.

Guernica (painting)
The Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. How could anybody think for a moment that I could be in agreement with reaction and death? ... In the panel on which I am working, which I shall call Guernica, and in all my recent works of art, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death.[1]

Answer 3

Picasso after seeing the atrocities showered on the city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Answer 4

Pablo picasso.Guernica was his village in Spain.After the Nazi invasion of Guernica,and the attrocities Nazis committed, the young picasso responded to the vibes of his heart and the things that followed and the art that emerged out from his Brush have created not ripples but waves in the annals of Art hitory.The ppainting depicts the injuries inflicted on his village Guernica by the Nazis.
While he was painting,a search squad of Nazis barged into his room and started searching his room.a soldier drawn by the wet and glistening paints asked Picasso, pointing towards just shaping up Guernica"You done this?"pat Picasso replied ,"No you done this".

Answer 5

Pablo Picasso during the Spanish Civil War to show the horrors of Fascist bombing over the city of Guernica. Franco's forces had the assistance of Germany's Lufwaffe. This is one of Picasso's most famous and most often photographed paintings. It shows the brutality of war on civilians in his unique cubism style.

Answer 6

Picasso painted the infamous Guernica and it was a painting about the effects and outcome of war.

Answer 7

Pablo Picasso. The inspiration was the horrific first aerial bombardment of civilians in the History of the world. Franco, the
fanatical right wing military despot requested the aid of his up and coming charmer of soulless millions, Hitler , to help with the problem of the rebellious folks (Basques) in the Northeastern section of Spain, Guernica. The gut wrenching scene of bloodied, lifeless bodies including Innocent women and children led Picasso to this particular expression.

Answer 8

Pablo Picasso. The circumstances--very timely today, in light of the bombings of civilians in Lebanon by Israel, civilians in Israel by Hezbollah, civilians in Iraq of late by the USA, etc.--was the bombing of a small Basque community of Guernica by forces loyal to Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

Answer 9

Picasso, to protest inhuman bombing in the Spanish Civil War.

Answer 10

Pablo Picasso...against the evils of war.