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• Guernica (2026) — Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter living in Paris during the Spanish Civil War. While apolitical at first, he was persuaded to start painting anti-war art after the bombing of the small village of Guernica. The painting of the same name was painted on a large canvas using only black and white colors to depict the terrible massacre. Picasso wanted people who saw the painting to feel the chaos and destruction that the people of Gernica felt that day as well. He made the painting huge and impossible to ignore and kept the color scheme simple to reflect the newspapers where most who learned of Guernica got their information. As I look at the painting, I see Picasso’s intentions clearly. I think the painting is ugly and distracting and leaves me feeling dizzy and nauseous. I also feel that's exactly what Picasso wanted his audience to feel. War is terrible; innocent people get hurt, but it's easy to ignore them by saying it's just a newspaper article. Guernica makes that impossible.

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