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Guernica is a monumental painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.
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Guernica may refer to: Guernica (town), Basque town, historical capital of Biscay; Bombing of Guernica, an attack on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War; Guernica, a work ...
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It is modern art's most powerful antiwar statement... created by the twentieth century's most well-known and least understood artist. But the mural called Guernica is not at all ...

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Guernica, in full Guernica y Luno, town, northern Spain, in Vizcaya Province, near Bilbao. It has traditionally been a center of Basque culture. Food processing, metalworking, and furniture manufacturing are the principal industries. A stronghold of the Loyalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Guernica was devastated by German air bombardment in 1937. The tragedy has been memorialized by Pablo Picasso in a monumental oil painting, Guernica (1937, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid). Population (2006 estimate) 15,959.