“There is no other piece in the 20th century that has generated so many comments, so many interpretations as Guernica,” said Manuel Borja-Villel, director of the Madrid museum. The 27-square-meter (290-square-foot) painting depicts the Nazi bombing of the small Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, during Spain’s civil war. “Terror, violence, horror, panic, fear, death became his subject,” British art historian Timothy James Clark, one of the curators, told reporters. It embodies the dark and violent change of direction of Picasso’s art, said Clark. Women with dead babies, a person crying blood: the show also includes some of the powerful preparatory drawings that Picasso did before painting “Guernica” in May 1937.

Source: Daily News Egypt April 04, 2017 12:22 UTC