Get Guernica (1937) – Pablo Picasso PNG. But the mural called guernica is not at all what pablo picasso has in mind when he agrees to paint the centerpiece for the spanish pavilion of the 1937 for three months, picasso has been searching for inspiration for the mural, but the artist is in a sullen mood, frustrated by a decade of turmoil in his. Madrid, museo nacional centro de arte reina sofia.
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols, said pablo picasso when asked to explain his celebrated mural, guernica.
In 1936, picasso (who was spanish) was asked by the newly elected spanish republican government to paint an artwork for the spanish pavilion at the 1937 paris world's fair. Guernica was ordered to picasso from the spanish government which was going to place it on the world exhibition in paris. So what actually happened in guernica on april 26, 1937 is that german fighter planes started an air raid that lasted two hours and resulted in bombs weighing up to a thousand pounds dropping on the innocent town of guernica. Picasso, who had been commissioned by the spanish republican government to create a large mural for the spanish pavilion at the 1937 paris world's fair, used the eyewitness accounts of the bombing as the inspiration.
