Spain: July: Picasso’s Guernica mural christened.
The painting memorializes via art–form, the victims of the bombing of the Guernica by German and Italian warplanes. The bombing was at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces during the ongoing Civil War at that time.
The huge mural (11 feet tall x 25+ feet wide), first displayed at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, focuses on Guernica, but is actually a more universal protest/cry against war, in general.
Picasso, Spanish, one of the most extraordinary artists and sculptors of the 20th century, lived 1881–1973.
Founder, along with Braque, of Cubism