View Picasso Famous Painting Guernica Background. It is a very large painting (a mural) which shows the bombing of the spanish town of guernica in 1937 during the spanish civil war. It is one of his best known works.

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Guernica is a world famous masterpiece, and the one that most people will look at and know it's picasso's. Yet picasso painted an overtly political painting, a subject in which he had shown little interest up to that time. It was painted as a reaction to the aerial bombing of guernica, spain by german and italian forces during the spanish civil war in 1937.

Spain was in the middle of a bloody civil war, with francisco franco's fascists on one side, and the republicans on the other.

Pablo picasso paintings are so famous today, that he often serves as a synonym for the best artist. Spain was in the middle of a bloody civil war, with francisco franco's fascists on one side, and the republicans on the other. Picasso's painting depicts the bombing of the basque town of guernica on april 26, 1937. Its depiction of an aerial bombing raid on the basque town of guernica in april 1937, during the spanish civil war, was an eerie visual prelude to the coming atrocities of world war ii.