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Guernica

  Buy now from barewalls.com1937: Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid

History paintings are generally considered part of the past in which academic painting reigned, but Picasso was able to update this tradition by providing a modern grammar and syntax for age-old atrocities. His celebrated depiction of the Spanish Civil War here became an international symbol for the hostilities of war and a unifying symbol for all those who opposed it.
 
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