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...next morning, April 28, 1937, papers all over the world reported that the Basque town of Guernica had been destroyed by German bombing planes flying for General Franco in his rebel offensive to take the Bilbao front...
...Guernica," one of Pablo Picasso's most spectacular and controversial pictures, has been acquired for a two week's exhibit by the Fogg Art Museum, it was announced yesterday...
...painting, which has aroused storms of both favorable and unfavorable comment, depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937 by the air force of insurgent General France. It was done by Picasso for the Loyalist government as a condemnation of the raid which virtually annihilated the population and town of the sacred Basque shrine...
...painting are therefore purposely given horrible, almost indecent distortions so that one will recoil on seeing them. The artist thus hopes to "suggest" the chaos and shock of disaster, the destruction of mind and spirit that takes place in such a catastrophe as the air raid on Guernica and, above all, the helpless rage and hatred of the trapped victims...
Many judges have called the picture final proof of the claim that Picasso is one of the great draftsmen in modern art. While the figures in "Guernica" are neither pleasant nor anatomically correct, every line is drawn with the utmost consistency and in almost perfect detail...