Painting of the Week: Guernica

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Check out this antiwar mural by Pablo Picasso commemorating the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf3Q7gS_YSA

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Room 206.06: The Pavilion of the Spanish Republic

"Guernica"

by Pablo Picasso

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