Why did Pablo Picasso paint the picture 'Guernica'?

Answer 1

to show the true horrors of the bombing of the town called Guernica there was also no soldiers in the town. In the bottom middle of the work theres a broken sword symbolizing defeat. this happened on the 26th of April 1937.

Answer 2

Picasso was commissioned to paint something for the 1937 World Fair, he delivered Guernica. It is an expression of pain, horror, anguish and disgust; what the artist felt after hearing the news of the terrible bombing of Guernica, a town in northern Spain, on April 26 1937 during the Spanish Civil War

Answer 3

Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 during the civil war between Spanish Republicans and General Franco's fascist army. After Franco's Nazi allies heavily bombed the town of Guernica, Picasso painted this work in response to this tragedy and the extensive loss of life.

Picasso loaned this famous painting to the Museum of Modern Art in New York with the stipulation that it be housed there until democracy returned to Spain. In 1981, Guernica was returned to Madrid, where it is in the Reina Sofia.

Answer 4

cuz he couldnt afford paint...............picasso at the time suffered from povery and he want to create his art to show the tragedy of the war but at the time only black and white pai nting where created and only the very ricj could afford paint .......

Answer 5

Because the painting is about the chaos and suffering of war.

It was also done during the German Bombing Of Guernica in Spain.

Answer 6

he painted Guernica in Paris because he was in Paris when he learnt about the tragedy

Answer 7

The Spanish Republic did not ask him to paint it. Picasso was outraged and horrified when he learned about the massacre and did the painting of his own accord while he was living in Paris.