Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, showing the bombings of Guernica (Spain) by 28 German bombers on April 26th, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The attack killed between 250-1600. This monumental work has eclipsed the bounds of a single time and place, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace. Guernica presents a sense of death, violence, brutality, suffering and helplessness without portraying their immediate causes. The choice to paint in black and white conveys the chronological nearness of a newspaper photograph and the lifelessness war affords.
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