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What was Picasso’s Guernica a solemn reaction to?
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According to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Pablo Picasso specifically painted Guernica after German aircraft dropped explosives on a Basque town of the same name, but the sheer size of the mural was a reference to the scale of the Spanish Civil War at large. It also served as a warning for what was to come in World War II, at which point Picasso lent the painting to New York’s Museum of Modern Art until Spanish democracy was restored.
What was Picasso’s Guernica a solemn reaction to?
- The Spanish Civil War
- The Spanish-American War
- World War I
- World War II
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